Re: [opensuse-factory] Adding SBIG CCD camera support to SUSE?

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Matthias Koenig 08/28/06 1:38 PM >>> Andreas Jaeger writes:

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Jasem Mutlaq writes:

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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. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org