[Savannah-register-public] [task #10911] Submission of linux-libre-firmware

[Rodrigo Rodrigues da Silva]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/task/?10911>

                 Summary: Submission of linux-libre-firmware
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: pitanga
            Submitted on: Sat 05 Feb 2011 06:42:36 AM BRST
         Should Start On: Sat 05 Feb 2011 12:00:00 AM BRST
   Should be Finished on: Tue 15 Feb 2011 12:00:00 AM BRST
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

While this item will be useful to track the registration process, *approving
or discarding the registration must be done using the specific Group
Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10724> page*,
accessible only to site administrators, effectively *logged as site
administrators* (superuser):

* Group Administration
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/siteadmin/groupedit.php?group_id=10724>


= Registration Details =

* Name: *linux-libre-firmware*
* System Name:  *linux-libre-fw*
* Type: non-GNU software & documentation
* License: GNU General Public License v2 or later (We are aware that some
firmware that are distributed as part of Linux or requested by it are released
under non-free terms, despite allowing distribution. This project won't deal
with this kind of firmware.)

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==== Description: ====
The goal of this project is to produce free firmware (with human-readable
source code) for devices for which the Linux kernel currently requires loading
of proprietary firmware (blobs). It intends to be a free replacement for the
linux-firmware repository.

Recently the Linux-libre project, a fork of Linux, has raised the issue of
proprietary firmware in Linux. The Linux maintainers have been working on
removing these blobs from the mainline Linux tree, although Linux still
distributes and requests proprietary firmware.

Linux-libre, run by the FSFLA, is a project that basically removes all blobs
and enables people to run a fully free kernel. Although, there is an impact on
functionality since many divers simply won't work. The goal of Linux-libre is
to make people aware of this problem. After using Linux-libre for some time
(and reading many /*(DEBLOBBED)*/ messages on syslog), we decided to work on
filling the gaps.

Some binary firmware object code is distributed under the GPL (even if
corresponding sources are not available). That means we can legally
disassemble it, hopefully producing useful source code under free licensing
terms.

Most, if not all of the source code will be written in device-specific
assembly and/or low-level C.


==== Other Software Required: ====
Linux - GPLv2 - http://kernel.org


==== Tarball URL: ====
http://savannah.gnu.org/submissions_uploads/linux-libre-fw.tar.gz






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