Hi all,
on the coreboot conference, we discussed a draft of a policy for inclusion of binaries into the 3rdparty/blobs repository.
If binaries are required, we want them redistributable in 3rdparty/blobs to make users' lives easier, and make it possible to deal with them as good as it is possible with binaries. Having clear rules should also make it easier for the developers at vendors who try to maintain these binaries - no more back-and-forth on gerrit that some more documentation is necessary and so on. Other rules are simply necessary (eg. a license allowing redistribution) for practical reasons.
This doesn't mean we encourage the use of binaries, and to use them, because they still need to be integrated through code in the coreboot repository.
The current draft can be found at https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wMdDUAZR2Z9V7hcs3IhIOqw6sYQxb3vPEmbITTCr..., and is open for comments.
The idea is to instate this policy (or something like this) once we found agreement. We can still revise the policy over time.
Patrick
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Patrick Georgi