svn commit: r437978 - in head/graphics: . gpu-firmware-kmod

[Fabian Keil]

Johannes M Dieterich <jmd at FreeBSD.org> wrote:

> Author: jmd
> Date: Sat Apr  8 00:37:47 2017
> New Revision: 437978
> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/ports/437978
> 
> Log:
>   New port: graphics/gpu-firmware-kmod containing firmware kernel modules for i915, radeon, and amdgpu as obtained from and up to date with linux-firmware and to be used by the linuxkpi-based new KMS DRM.
>   
>   Currently restricted to amd64 as the linuxkpi-based KMS components are similarly restricted.
>   
>   Reviewed by:	swills (mentor), rene (mentor), kwm, x11
>   Approved by:	swills (mentor), rene (mentor), x11
>   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9931

Quoting https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9931#213095:
| LICENSE: as discussed here, the firmware licenses are different
| derivative "3-clause BSD"-ish licenses, both include explicit
| language to disallow disassembling/reverse engineering. After
| talking to @swills, he decided that we should get this port in
| first and sort out the licensing (including changes to Mk and
| remaining legal questions) later.

A bold decision.

While the licenses may have 3 clauses they aren't close to
being BSD-ish and clearly non-free.

At the moment distributing the package created with the port
seems to violate the licenses (by not including them) so the
port should probably get marked with RESTRICTED or NO_PACKAGE
until the license issues are taken care of.

Fabian
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