Re: Some thoughts about firmware inclusion.

["Peter Lemenkov" <lemenkov gmail com>]

2007/10/23, Nicolas Mailhot <nicolas mailhot laposte net>:

> That probably means you need to package "firmware" building tools in
> fedora and use them to build the "firmware" source in the "firmware"
> package. And we may have been lax on the subject in the past for games
> but as the OP message shows it's a quick path to shipping pre-built
> closed java or.Net binaries and effectively having a non-free system.

Firmware and ROMs for virtual machines is the same thing as graphics
and music for games. We don't package them from sources but we package
existing *prebuilt* graphics/music/maps /etc.
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With best regards!