From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:60426 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751738Ab0LHWXy (ORCPT ); Wed, 8 Dec 2010 17:23:54 -0500 Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 14:23:49 -0800 From: Greg KH To: =?utf-8?B?UmFmYcWCIE1pxYJlY2tp?= Cc: Henry Ptasinski , David Woodhouse , "devel@linuxdriverproject.org" , Brett Rudley , "grundler@google.com" , "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. Message-ID: <20101208222349.GA31641@kroah.com> References: <4CBE23F4.4020104@broadcom.com> <20101019233520.GA12510@kroah.com> <20101020004743.GB31965@kroah.com> <20101020005546.GL10832@broadcom.com> <20101020010320.GA370@kroah.com> <20101021170810.GA15357@broadcom.com> <1288621739.26983.32.camel@macbook.infradead.org> <20101208205000.GA30861@broadcom.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 11:07:53PM +0100, Rafał Miłecki wrote: > 2010/12/8 Henry Ptasinski : > > 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 > > 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