[Fwd: [asterisk-announce] Asterisk 1.2.12 and Zaptel 1.2.9 released!]

Tzafrir Cohen tzafrir.cohen at xorcom.com
Mon Sep 18 21:32:26 UTC 2006


On Mon, Sep 18, 2006 at 10:25:57PM +0200, Marc Fargas wrote:
> And can a non-free binary come from a "copy" of the main's source
> package but with the non-free ? asterisk-classic, asterisk-bristuff,
> asterisk-nonfree-classic, asterisk-nonfree-bristuff ... what a mess...
> x"D

There are a number of things we strip:

* non-free sound files:
  can be easily distributed alone and be copied by the user. Or some
  other sound files with a free license instead.

* iaxy.bin: firmware for the Digium iaxy IAX ATA device
  can be copied by the user. Aparantly the firmware is distributable but
  not the source is not availble.

  This would have belonged in the main package asterisk, had there been
  no license issues.

* ilbc codec: 
  If you really feel that programs need an ilbc codec, you'll probably need 
  to package codec_ilbc.so as an external source package .

That was just a comment on the technical requirements.

BTW: I'd like to clarify one issue in a similar subject:

iaxy.bin and the files removed from the package zaptel
(wct4xxp/OCT6114-128D.ima , xpp/utils/*.hex) are all firmware files.
That is: they are not software that is intended to be run on the host
computer. They are loaded by a processor/controller in some device.

The package zaptel actually includes firmware whose source is available
under the terms of the GPL (the firmwares for the tor2 card and for the 
pciradio card), but we never tried to build it. The fact that we can't 
rebuild those firmwares has not blocked zaptel from getting into main 
(as in the case of op-pannel and the flash applet).


I gather that there were some recent policy changes regarding firmwares
in main. Is there any change to the above-mentioned firmware files?

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