Hi, On Mon, 08 May 2023 20:33:42 +0200 Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues <jo...@debian.org> wrote: > But are we allowed to distribute these? Reading the copyright file, > distribution only seems to be allowed by those in the "Software Content > Register". > > On which basis does the license allow us to redistribute it?
I wrote to i...@lists.linux.dev about this problem (full text of my mail at the end of this message) and got told that the issue was forwarded to the internal release management team. But no follow-up since then: https://lore.kernel.org/imx/172079266731.2928366.7031846226118749814@localhost/ Thanks! cheers, josch ------------------------------------------------------ Dear NXP team, I'm writing you as a member of the Debian project. I am trying to add support for platforms like the NXP i.MX8MQ to the debian-installer disk images. These images need to (for example) contain the DDR training blobs which can be downloaded from https://www.nxp.com/lgfiles/NMG/MAD/YOCTO/firmware-imx-8.24-fbe0a4c.bin Unfortunately, the NXP Software License Agreement states: > 2.3. [..] If expressly authorized in the > Software Content Register, subject to the terms and conditions of this > Agreement, NXP grants you a [...] license solely in connection with your > manufacturing and distribution of an Authorized System: > [...] > (b) to copy and distribute as needed, solely in connection with an > Authorized System and for use in combination with a NXP Product, My reading of that agreement is, that Debian is not permitted to redistribute these blobs. But this in turn means that our disk images will not work out-of-the box with NXP platforms that require these blobs to be loaded early during boot to function. Could you assist me in connecting with the appropriate person who can help resolve this issue? Maybe there is a possibility for the Debian project to be allowed to distribute these blobs in its repositories? Thanks a lot in advance and have a nice weekend! Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues
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