[fedora-arm] Update to Binary Firmware Exceptions

[Peter Robinson]

On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Scott Sullivan <scott at ss.org> wrote:
> On 10/24/2012 11:11 AM, Peter Robinson wrote:
>>
>> Already aware of it. After all it went via the board for approval first
>> ;-)
>>
>> I was actually working on packaging the firmware this morning so I can
>> build a 3.7 kernel for it in rawhide.
>>
>> Peter
>>
> [...]
>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: [Fedora-legal-list] Update to Binary Firmware Exceptions
>>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 10:56:24 -0400
>>> From: Tom Callaway <tcallawa at redhat.com>
>>> To: legal at lists.fedoraproject.org, devel-announce at lists.fedoraproject.org
>>>
>>> Two minor exceptions have been added to the Licensing Guidelines:
>
> [...]
>
> How does today's announcement of Open-source Userland / Driver code
> integrate with this?
>
> http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/2221
>
> Does it make the issue moot going forward? Or is the issue with the binary
> bootloader blob?

The issue is with the bootloader blob. Even with today's announcement
the device wouldn't be useful without the blob. The "first completely
open platform" is a bit misleading with regards to the announcement.
The firmware exception has been in discussion for quite some time so
it's not linked with today's announcement from the RPi foundation.

Peter