Bug#712674: firmware-linux-nonfree: Please, include the frmware for Sun Cassini (cassini.bin)
Ben!
I think I've found the bug report you mentions. But it was opened for
lenny in 2008 and has been archived.
The Bug # is 498631. Anyway it mentions that a firmware was inside the
kernel module, and has been put out.
About the license clarification: I think the mail was sent to Sun just
during or near their acquisition by Oracle, uncertain time for SUN: so
may be this is why there was no response. May be it is worth to try to
write to Oracle now again.
I can't write in behalf of Debian project, but investigating on Oracle
Opensource Page (https://oss.oracle.com/) it states that OpenSource
questions or comments may be sent to "webmaster AT oss.oracle.com".
Not sure if this will be a correct address, but probably you can just
send the previouse mail intended for Sun to this address and see if
there is some luck this time.
I'll see if can find any other contact we can try.
On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 7:54 PM, Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote:
> Control: tag -1 help
>
> I thought there was an open bug report for this already, but there
> doesn't seem to be.
>
> The cassini firmware unfortunately doesn't have a clear licence. When
> it was built into the cassini driver, the only copyright and licence
> notices were those for the driver itself, which said GNU GPL. We
> can't distribute a binary under the GPL unless we can also distribute
> the 'preferred form for modification' (source code) for it, which we
> don't have. Presumably some other licence was intended for the
> firmware, but we don't know what it is or who to ask.
>
> Ben.
>
> --
> Ben Hutchings
> We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking.
> - Albert Camus
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