From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Cc: Vikram Kandukuri <Vikram.Kandukuri@Atheros.com>,
"linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org"
<linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org>,
Luis Rodriguez <Luis.Rodriguez@Atheros.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] DFU Driver and firmware for Atheros bluetooth chipset AR3011
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:45:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091117174533.GB11382@tux> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1258469940.2003.25.camel@violet>
On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 06:59:00AM -0800, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> > diff --git a/firmware/atherosbt.bin b/firmware/atherosbt.bin
> > new file mode 100644
> > index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..4a5ffb8de898fab1595662742f287493689e2b3b
> > GIT binary patch
>
> What license is on this firmware. We can't include it into the Linux
> kernel unless it us under GPL.
Actually GPL-compatible.
> If it is a binary license and has a
> proper distribution license then it can go to the linux-firmware tree
> once you fixed the name of it of course.
Vikram, you can use this firmware if you are not opening up the firmware:
http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/mcgrof/firmware/LICENCE.atheros_firmware
Our legal department has given us the blessing to use this for our firmware for
802.11 when we don't open it up and release it under a GPL-compatible license.
Luis
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-11-17 17:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-11-17 14:36 [PATCH] DFU Driver and firmware for Atheros bluetooth chipset AR3011 Kandukuri Vikram
2009-11-17 14:59 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-17 17:45 ` Luis R. Rodriguez [this message]
2009-11-17 20:29 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-17 19:11 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17 20:27 ` Marcel Holtmann
2009-11-17 21:47 ` David Sainty
2009-11-17 21:59 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
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2009-11-17 14:48 Vasanthakumar Thiagarajan
2009-11-17 14:48 Vikram Kandukuri
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