[Pkg-alsa-devel] Bug#483918: Bug#483918: alsa-driver - binary only code

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 11:34:17PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 the mental interface of
> Bastian Blank told:
> 
> > Package: alsa-driver
> > Version: 1.0.16-1.1
> > Severity: serious
> > 
> > alsa-driver still ships files which have beed removed from the Debian
> > Linux packages because of DFSG violations.
> > 
> > This are at least:
> > * alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/cs46xx_image.h
> > * alsa-kernel/pci/cs46xx/imgs
> > * alsa-kernel/pci/korg1212/korg1212-firmware.h
> > * alsa-kernel/pci/maestro3.c
> > * alsa-kernel/pci/ymfpci/ymfpci_image.h
> 
> I've had a quick check on these files and didn't found a clue about
> any licences? What sort of violation do they have? If we have to
> remove the files from source none maestro3|cs46xx|ympfi card will
> work.

We could add the affected firmwares to the firmware-nonfree source
package and let it build a new binary package firmware-alsa?

Cheers,
        Moritz