--- Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> wrote:
Matthias Koenig <mkoenig@suse.de> writes:
Andreas Jaeger <aj@suse.de> writes:
Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja@ikarustech.com> 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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org