Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU)

[Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>]

On 10/19/2010 11:08 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 11:07 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 10/19/2010 10:58 AM, David Woodhouse wrote:
>>> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 10:54 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
>>>> + * under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as
>>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation. 
>>>
>>> Where is the source code, then?
>>>
>>
>> The source code for the driver with inline firmware is in linux-next in
>> drivers/staging/rtl8712 and was pushed through GregKH.
> 
> No. If you're stating that the *firmware* is under GPL, then we need to
> see the source code for the firmware. If not, try another description of
> the licence on the firmware.

In the source code originally provided by Realtek, the firmware is inlined in a
header file. Unfortunately, it does not have any license information provided
and starts with

/* Firmware */
static const unsigned char f_array[122328] = {
0x12, 0x87, 0xEC, 0x11, 0x30, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08, 0xE8, 0x00, 0x00,
0x50, 0xF5, 0x00, 0x00, 0x30, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x98, 0xF3, 0x00, 0x00,

The license information that I put into WHENCE is in the source-code file that
contains the MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) statement. As the firmware header file is part
of that set of files, I thought the GPL license would apply to all. Is that not
so? If not, I'm not sure how to proceed.

Larry