On Wed, Apr 18, 2012 at 12:39:06AM +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > On Tue, Apr 17, 2012 at 03:11:55PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Tue, 2012-04-17 at 02:05 +0200, Uwe Hermann wrote: > > > Package: wnpp > > > Severity: wishlist > > > Owner: Uwe Hermann <u...@debian.org> > > > > > > * Package name : sigrok-firmware > > > Version : 0.1 > > > Upstream Author : sigrok developers, others > > > * URL : http://www.sigrok.org > > > * License : GPL, BSD, others > > > Programming Lang: C, others > > > Description : firmware files for various logic analyzers > > > > > > Collection of firmware files for various logic analyzers. > > > > > > The current sigrok package (which I maintain) will become a meta-package > > > depending on all sigrok-related packages. > > > > This package will be non-free. So if you make sigrok depend on it, you > > have to put sigrok in contrib. > > Nope, firmware doesn't necessarily imply non-free.
Of course - but I looked on the web site and could only find a sigrok-firmware git repository with binaries and no source. > In our case we have > at least the 'fx2lafw' firmware which is written by myself and another > developer from scratch and which supports multiple hardware devices, and > is of course GPL'd. > > http://sigrok.org/wiki/Fx2lafw Nice. > There could be others which are BSD licensed or such in future, too. > > Though you're right that there will also be some non-free firmwares, not > sure what the best route is here. > > Maybe a sigrok-firmware metapackage and then sigrok-firmware-free, and > sigrok-firmware-nonfree as with the Linux firmwares? The sigrok > metapackage must then only depend on 'sigrok-firmware-free' and whoever > wants the non-free ones must explicitly install 'sigrok-firmware-nonfree' > or the non-free 'sigrok-firmware' metapackage then, right? That makes sense. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-wnpp-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120417224617.gd3...@decadent.org.uk
