From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7D2C8C433EF for ; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) id 698E0C340EE; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:45:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 55CB6C004E1; Thu, 10 Feb 2022 10:45:37 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=kernel.org; s=k20201202; t=1644489938; bh=32OaQk+UQ/kYTL9+dr4DZaoEDesEdMynTCoF8QwK6Gg=; h=From:To:List-Id:Cc:Subject:References:Date:In-Reply-To:From; b=obTGnW2sLiEcWnt5c70h0ewCHsXuXXd1D24gLvdZjhxbSSTsdoY7tsPIVgJEI9OON Yi2cKM7/VFZGYk4kb5WuM3Bc/W1kYoSRY4mJLndhaQSSdNpqMWXvFIddkyymTXwGc4 E8yfNpW51Rdw2ARkCHYq4vARI5fF5IC7Z3zuHczXTiJYrfE4wDaiBJIxXlGjHZP1hv Y39hGf3xlXJ1zgMuR9cYNfKbT9Y781u13ouLIM1aI+w0xIMsSuHb7kAH3bHiAWdi9d gDd8wgOG+77qUdqyZYm7mU+uCHzcMepXqDYB0o/U84pcNzi+vi1NwC1ck2mem1pCiH 5qpZ2bjHCmb1A== From: Kalle Valo To: Josh Boyer List-Id: Cc: "linux-firmware\@kernel.org" , "linux-wireless\@vger.kernel.org" , "ath11k\@lists.infradead.org" Subject: Re: [PULL] ath11k firmware 20211223 References: Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2022 12:45:32 +0200 In-Reply-To: (Josh Boyer's message of "Wed, 29 Dec 2021 08:41:45 -0500") Message-ID: <87ee4brodv.fsf@kernel.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Hi Josh, Josh Boyer writes: > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 9:03 AM Kalle Valo wrote: >> >> WHENCE | 14 +- >> ath11k/IPQ6018/hw1.0/Notice.txt | 48 +- > > These Notice files seem problematic. They're clearly well intended, > but they have language that alludes to an agreement with Atheros and a > confidential nature to some of the files. Specifically: > > "...your use of these software > components together with the Qualcomm Atheros software (Qualcomm > Atheros software hereinafter referred to as =E2=80=9CSoftware=E2=80=9D) is > subject to the terms of your agreement from Qualcomm Atheros." > > Nobody has an opportunity to agree to anything with Atheros when they > consume the files from linux-firmware. There's also no explicit grant > of redistribution for any of these files. So this file we are discussing is the notice.txt file. In the WHENCE file the actual license for ath11k is: Licence: Redistributable. See LICENSE.QualcommAtheros_ath10k for details Does that cover your concerns about redistribution? I'm still working on your other comment about notice.txt, will get back on that later. --=20 https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatc= hes