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Bug#494120: marked as done (binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c)

Your message dated Thu, 7 Aug 2008 09:34:31 -0700
with message-id <20080807163431.GB7446@dario.dodds.net>
and subject line Re: Bug#494120: binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c
has caused the Debian Bug report #494120,
regarding binary firmware in drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c
to be marked as done.

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If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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

Hi,

drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a
small chunk of binary code:

static u8 tda10021_inittab[0x40]=
{
        0x73, 0x6a, 0x23, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x37, 0x77, 0x1a,
        0x37, 0x6a, 0x17, 0x8a, 0x1e, 0x86, 0x43, 0x40,
	[...]

Since the licensing terms allow redistribution, shipping it is not illegal but
is a DFSG violation.

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On Thu, Aug 07, 2008 at 11:17:57AM +0000, Robert Millan wrote:
> Package: linux-2.6
> Version: 2.6.26-1
> Severity: serious

> drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10021.c (licensed under GPLv2+) contains a
> small chunk of binary code:

> static u8 tda10021_inittab[0x40]=
> {
>         0x73, 0x6a, 0x23, 0x0a, 0x02, 0x37, 0x77, 0x1a,
>         0x37, 0x6a, 0x17, 0x8a, 0x1e, 0x86, 0x43, 0x40,
> 	[...]

> Since the licensing terms allow redistribution, shipping it is not illegal but
> is a DFSG violation.

By "small chunk", you mean 64 bytes of data.  That's not a program; that's 
almost certainly register initialization values, which are data, and there
is no requirement in the DFSG that arbitrary bits of data (which are too
short and lacking in originality to be covered by copyright anyway) be
distributed in a textual source form.

You need to find yourself a more appropriate way to express your concerns
about such files than by unilaterally declaring them to be release-critical
bugs.

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