Bug#494119: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/af9005-script.h

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.26-1
Severity: serious

Hi,

drivers/char/drm/mga_ucode.h is entirely composed of binary code:

RegDesc script[] = {
	[...]

There's no copyright header in this file.   The comments say it's been
generated from "AF05BDA.sys (windows driver)", but they don't specify the
license of that file.  Sounds likely that this file can't be legally
distributed.

Otherwise, it'd still be a DFSG violation.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-6-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash