Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (599 mails)

[Andreas Jaeger <aj@xxxxxxx>]

Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

>> > 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. 
>>
>>Yes please do so.
>>Please also ask for permission to distribute the
> firmware
>>with commercial SUSE Linux Products.
>
> Hello,
>
> I contacted SBIG regarding the _distribution_ of their
> firmware in SUSE and they have no problem with it.
> They also have no problem in packaging their binary
> library in a SUSE non-OSS RPM, which I will release
> later.
>
> Now regarding the firmware, what sort of
> licence/agreement do you require from SBIG to
> release/sign so we can bundle their firmware in SUSE?

Let's handle this offline - thanks,
Andreas
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