From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jason Gunthorpe Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] pull request: linux-firmware: Add Intel OPA hfi1 firmware Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 17:35:53 -0600 Message-ID: <20150811233553.GA3553@obsidianresearch.com> References: <20150811213205.GA28613@phlsvsds.ph.intel.com> <20150811222557.GA6293@obsidianresearch.com> <9010F06FA27E5745AF23866A8C9A2B3D2E9B136C@FMSMSX106.amr.corp.intel.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <9010F06FA27E5745AF23866A8C9A2B3D2E9B136C-AtyAts71sc9ZtRGVdHMbwrfspsVTdybXVpNB7YpNyf8@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-rdma-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: "Vogel, Steve" Cc: "Weiny, Ira" , "linux-firmware-DgEjT+Ai2ygdnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org" , Doug Ledford , "linux-rdma-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org" , "Fleck, John" , "Sowa, David" List-Id: linux-rdma@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:47:03PM +0000, Vogel, Steve wrote: > The license terms allow anyone to distribute (but not sell) the firmware but > only for use on Intel products. Redistribution alone may be enough to be included in linux-firmware However, most of the additional terms (and there are lots of them) this imposes beyond the usual likely make it impossible to include in a distro, so pragmatically, there is no reason to push for inclusion in linux-firmware. This is going to be a hard road for you guys. Falling in line with every other Intel firmware blob's (i915, ibt, iwlwifi, SST2) license would be much easier on you and the distros. Frankly, I think the onus is on you to get statements from the licensing teams at Fedora, Debian, RH and SuSE on if they can include work under this license or not. I suspect Fedora and Debian will both say they can't, just based on their public policies and the additional restrictions in this license.. But hey, I'm not a licensing lawyer.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html