Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> 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.

I'll get back to the vendor and ask them for the
license details regarding the firmware. We'll try to
distribute the binary-only library as a non OSS RPM if
possible as well.

Regards,
Jasem

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