27 Apr
2004
27 Apr
'04
11:39 a.m.
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On Tue, Apr 27, 2004 at 08:13:36AM -0400, Paul Davis wrote:
re,
first thanks Thomas for noticing, and trying out dyne:bolic.
in my experience debian geeks are quite pedantic in judging things
non-free (see XFree and Lame etc.), to their exclusion of ALSA firmware
doesn't really tells anything to me.
i must admit i also didn't dedicated enough attention to the topic,
which i'm willing to do now with your help. d:b is not based on any
distribution, so i can just start including the firmware from now on.
but i have ONE BIG QUESTION:
is the ALSA firmware freely redistributable by third parties, like me?
thanks!
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jaromil, dyne.org rasta coder, http://rastasoft.org
Hi Jaromil,
First of all thanks for Dyne:bolic :)
All README files from the alsa-firmware package grant copyright to the
respective companies with the statement 'Redistributable under the GPL',
so I guess the answer is yes. As far as I'm concerned we received
several verbal and mail confirmations from RME that we could
redistribute the files, and Matthias Carstens (who I just met last week)
promised me an official written statement.
Thomas
Also then
the Tascam (and maybe some other) USB boxes won't work, as
they also need a firmware plus loader. But then, I think, both
packages to my knowledge ("apt-cache search ...") aren't available in
mainstream Debian as well. Maybe some kind of wishlist bug could be
debian is about to exclude all "non-free" material from their
distributions. this includes firmware, documentation et al.