From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: "Rafał Miłecki" <zajec5@gmail.com>
Cc: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>,
David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
"devel@linuxdriverproject.org" <devel@linuxdriverproject.org>,
Brett Rudley <brudley@broadcom.com>,
"grundler@google.com" <grundler@google.com>,
"linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org" <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
rvossen@broadcom.com, dowan@broadcom.com, arend@broadcom.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] linux-firmware: brcm: Removed codeversion from firmware filenames.
Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:23:49 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101208222349.GA31641@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTin70oBFYq8LMJYw6zc7oVF9-UXv=nn_ophx+L2S@mail.gmail.com>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:07:53PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> 2010/12/8 Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>:
> > Second attempt at cleaning up firmware filenames.
> >
> > The basename-apiversion-codeversion construction for firmware filenames is not
> > used by most other firmware files, adds complexity, and is not providing any
> > value. Renamed the firmware files using just basename-apiversion. Also, fixed
> > WHENCE to have correct path to brcmfmac files.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Henry Ptasinski <henryp@broadcom.com>
>
> Henry, I believe we got report that Red Hat can not include your
> firmware anyway because of licensing. Can you change license to some
> common one which allows providing your firmware with distributions?
That's news to me, what specific licensing issue have you heard about
here? Last I saw, the issues were resolved and everyone could
redistribute this firmware.
Do you have a bugzilla number?
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-08 22:23 UTC|newest]
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2010-10-20 2:18 ` [PATCH] staging:brcm80211:brcmfmac:change firmware/config file name Henry Ptasinski
2010-10-20 3:10 ` Greg KH
2010-10-20 11:49 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-20 18:04 ` Henry Ptasinski (local)
2010-10-21 17:08 ` [PATCH] linux-firmware: brcm: Removed codeversion from firmware filenames Henry Ptasinski
2010-11-01 14:28 ` David Woodhouse
2010-12-08 20:50 ` [PATCH v2] " Henry Ptasinski
2010-12-08 22:07 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-08 22:23 ` Greg KH [this message]
2010-12-08 23:35 ` Henry Ptasinski
2010-12-09 0:28 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-12-09 1:30 ` Henry Ptasinski
2010-12-09 9:01 ` Rafał Miłecki
2010-10-21 17:10 ` Subject: [PATCH] staging: brcm80211: brcmfmac: " Henry Ptasinski
2010-10-21 18:26 ` Greg KH
2010-10-21 18:37 ` Subject: [PATCH v2] " Henry Ptasinski
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