Task:Community firmware image distribution
As part of the community efforts to backport Fremantle components (Mer), there have been discussions on how the community can provide firmware images containing proprietary contents (nokia software, hardware firmware blobs, 3rd party?, etc.) and distribute these.
A proposal to deal with this problem could be to, allow/license/etc maemo.org, directed by the Maemo Community Council, elected by the Maemo Community, to do the following:
- On their servers construct, based on build scripts provided by
community developers, firmware images (FIASCO images, jffs images, etc.) containing the proprietary contents.
- The resulting images will then be provided by the maemo.org servers.
The resulting firmware images would only be downloadable through providing a valid MAC address for a Nokia Internet Tablet product and agreeing to a license covering the user's use of the firmware image, just like tablets-dev.nokia.com.
The effect of this could be, through the maemo.org process, that the community could be able to remix the firmware images, backport Fremantle components without having to directly deal with licensing and could make it possible to provide alternative distributions for the tablets without them sacrificing hardware interfaces, etc.
Associated maemo-community thread here