[Prism54-devel] Debian packages

[Fabian Fagerholm]

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On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 16:13, Herbert Valerio Riedel wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 12:32, Fabian Fagerholm wrote:
> > see that there are some licence issues that need to be resolved, but
> > after that the driver could probably be included in Debian.
> >=20
> > What do you think?
>=20
> great :-)
>=20
> btw, how does debian handle non-free firmware stuff?

The free portions could be included in the Debian section called
"contrib". But Debian cannot distribute the non-free firmware.

My idea is that when installing the package, the user will have a choice
of loading the firmware file from the installation media that came with
the hardware, or from a directory of her choice, or download the
firmware file from the web. That's the way it's done in some other
packages, and I think it works quite nicely. It also allows the user to
get the firmware version independently of the package, which is probably
a good thing.

Has there been any progress on the license issues for the rest of the
prism54 package?

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Fabian Fagerholm <fabbe@paniq.net>

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