From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com>
To: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
Cc: Tim Gardner <rtg.canonical@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-media@vger.kernel.org,
Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2012 09:06:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50BE1F6B.8030909@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1354597630.17107.42.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk>
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On 12/03/2012 10:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
>> Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows
>> drivers?
>
<snip>
>
> I'm not sure how you can say they are the same files, as you're
> proposing to change the contents. The copyright on the current
> files belongs to the chipset vendor, Conexant, and Hauppuage
> *presumably* used firmware supplied by Conexant, but either of
> them might have chosen a different licence for the versions in this
> driver package.
>
I guess that is the root of the issue. In light of the licensing
uncertainty I think you should just drop this pull request.
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Tim Gardner (1): cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139
>>
>> v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw | Bin 16382 -> 16382 bytes
>> v4l-cx23885-enc.fw | Bin 16382 -> 376836 bytes 2 files
>> changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>
> How odd, these two files are currently identical to each other...
>
> Ben.
>
Indeed they are. The comment in the bug report [0] indicates that
those files should not be identical.
[0]
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-firmware/+bug/569615/comments/4
rtg
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Tim Gardner tim.gardner@canonical.com
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-12-04 16:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-12-03 18:13 [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139 Tim Gardner
2012-12-04 5:07 ` Ben Hutchings
2012-12-04 16:06 ` Tim Gardner [this message]
2012-12-04 16:35 ` Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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