Bug#712674: firmware-linux-nonfree: Please, include the frmware for Sun Cassini (cassini.bin)

[Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>]

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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.

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Ben Hutchings
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