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Bug#242865: drivers containing firmware blobs



# remove spurious use of release tags -- some of these are in XFree86
# 4.1.0 (woody) as well
tag 242865 - sarge sid
# not specific to Debian packaging; license info needed
tag 242865 + moreinfo
thanks

On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 12:38:28PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> Package: xfree86
> Severity: serious
> Tags: sarge, sid
> 
> The following files contain binary firmwares, and distributing them
> appears to be a DFSG violation. (See #239952)
> 
> ./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/mga/mga_ucode.h
>  * GLX Hardware Device Driver for Matrox G200/G400
> 
> ./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/rendition/v10002d.uc
> ./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/rendition/v20002d.uc
> 
> /* r128_cce.c -- ATI Rage 128 driver -*- linux-c -*-
> ./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/shared/drm/kernel/r128_cce.c
> 
> /* radeon_cp.c -- CP support for Radeon -*- linux-c -*-
> ./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/os-support/shared/drm/kernel/radeon_cp.c

Please paste the licensing info (if any) from each of these files and
specifically explain why they fail the DFSG.

Cross-reference to another bug report that talks about unrelated code in
an unrelated package is not useful.  This bug report must justify its
release-criticality (and its existence, for that matter) on its own merits.

Thanks!

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