From: Francesco Dolcini <francesco@dolcini.it>
To: Karel Balej <balejk@matfyz.cz>
Cc: "Francesco Dolcini" <francesco@dolcini.it>,
"Brian Norris" <briannorris@chromium.org>,
"Johannes Berg" <johannes@sipsolutions.net>,
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Subject: Re: [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 0/4] WiFi support for samsung,coreprimevelte
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:40:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260429134011.GA73482@francesco-nb> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <DI5O432AFZVX.3VGKJP31AZX97@matfyz.cz>
On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 03:20:28PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote:
> Francesco Dolcini, 2026-04-29T13:22:32+02:00:
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 12:55:23PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote:
> >> without the firmware being in linux-firmware?
> >
> > What's the license of this firmware? Am I wrong saying that if
> > the license allows it, you could just send a patch to have it integrated
> > to the linux-firmware repository? Is there any history or documentation
> > on the topic (please apologize if this is a well known topic, just
> > answer RTFM if this is the case).
>
> that's one of the issues, the license is not specified explicitly
> anywhere as far as I know.
That's enough to be blocked.
> As far as I know, even if I was to submit the firmware myself, it would
> still require a sign-off from someone from NXP [1].
And this is clearly there to avoid situation that are problematic from
a legal point of view.
I do not see any way forward without NXP.
Francesco
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/about/#signed-off-by-requirement
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-04-29 13:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-10-26 18:20 [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 0/4] WiFi support for samsung,coreprimevelte Karel Balej
2025-10-26 18:20 ` [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 1/4] dt-bindings: mwifiex: document use with the SD8777 chipset Karel Balej
2025-12-03 21:50 ` Brian Norris
2025-10-26 18:20 ` [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 2/4] net: mwifiex: add support for " Karel Balej
2025-10-26 18:20 ` [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 3/4] DONOTMERGE: net: mwifiex: fix timeouts with the SD8777 chip Karel Balej
2025-12-03 21:46 ` Brian Norris
2025-10-26 18:20 ` [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 4/4] arm64: dts: samsung,coreprimevelte: add wifi node Karel Balej
2025-12-03 21:47 ` Brian Norris
2025-12-12 8:36 ` Karel Balej
2025-12-12 14:55 ` Duje Mihanović
2025-12-12 21:17 ` Karel Balej
2025-12-12 22:44 ` Duje Mihanović
2025-11-27 15:29 ` [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 0/4] WiFi support for samsung,coreprimevelte Karel Balej
2025-11-28 17:05 ` Francesco Dolcini
2025-12-01 16:25 ` Karel Balej
2026-04-29 10:55 ` Karel Balej
2026-04-29 11:22 ` Francesco Dolcini
2026-04-29 13:20 ` Karel Balej
2026-04-29 13:40 ` Francesco Dolcini [this message]
2026-04-29 13:47 ` Karel Balej
2026-04-29 17:15 ` Brian Norris
2026-04-29 18:36 ` Karel Balej
2026-05-17 8:14 ` Karel Balej
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