Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@xxxxxxx> writes:

> 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.

With such an unclear license situation, we cannot take these for
openSUSE at all.

Andreas
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