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Date:   Tue, 26 Sep 2023 10:02:30 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc:     Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>,
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Subject: Re: SPDX: Appletalk FW license in the kernel
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On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 12:34:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 09:39:05AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> > To be clear, I am not asking for their removal, however, I do think a better
> > license should be issued for these files.  The files were trivially modified
> > in 2006. It could be that the code in question is now unused and it is just
> > easier to remove them.
> > 
> > Is there anyone you know of that we could approach to determine a proper
> > SPDX License for these files?
> 
> The code contains firmware that is downloaded to the device.  The proper
> thing would be to convert them to separate binary files in the
> linux-firmware packages.  But given that the driver has seen nothing
> but tree wide cleanups since the dawn of git I suspect there is no
> maintainer and probably no user left.  The best might be to indeed just
> remove it and see if anyone screams, in which case we could bring it
> back after doing the above.
> 

We should just remove them for now, I have no objection to that at all.

Want me to send the patch?

thanks,

greg k-h