[Fedora-spins] Firmware package in a spin

Peter Robinson pbrobinson at gmail.com
Tue Jun 11 13:08:08 UTC 2013


On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:43 PM, Shakthi Kannan <shakthimaan at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I would like to know if it okay to include firmware packages
> (sigrok-firmware-fx2lafw) in a spin group for it to work out of the
> box with hardware. I also see "hardware-support" group in comps.xml
> files where firmware files are included. When and how does this group
> packages get installed?

If the firmware is packaged in Fedora is can be included in a spin, if
it's not included in Fedora it can't be. The packaging requirements
from a legal perspective can be found in the wiki link below.

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Firmware

Peter


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