Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

["Dominique Leuenberger" <Dominique.Leuenberger@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>>>> Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@xxxxxxx> 08/28/06 1:38 PM >>>
>Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> writes:
>
>> Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>>
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Sorry if this is not the appropiate list to discuss
>>> this issue.
>>>
>>> Santa Barbara SBIG CCD camera is one of the most
>>> popular cameras used in astronomy. In order to
>>> operate, the CCD requires a firmware to be uploaded
>>> upon detection on the USB port. Otherwise, you can't
>>> establish any further communications at all.
>>
>> What is the license of this firmware?  Is it possible to
re-distribute
>> it?  If this is not the case, then we cannot include it,
>
>Unfortunately the Linux Developer Kit from SBIG does not contain
>any hint about the license of the firmware. Though the included
>example code is mentioned to be "free".
>Note, that the camera needs a USB driver, which is provided by SBIG 
>as a binary only non-kernel driver also without any license.

I think the best thing in this case is to get in touch with the vendor
and ask for an explicit permission to redistribute the drivers / and
firmware within our openSUSE bundle. 

For sure there IS any sort of license bound to their source code. 
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