From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mail11.truemail.it (mail11.truemail.it [217.194.8.81]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C01E7175A81; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:22:36 +0000 (UTC) Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.194.8.81 ARC-Seal:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777461760; cv=none; b=ehGHuSWMM3CFYDm71iV25c2EVZEuFgGiRwFOziAz63MiZf9TxjcfMJpB+/+TN1nDpVj/3zf78Ti5jnAYLoX12SGQHGq+HoHTaK3DpFWr/Gf2blQK988rNddFpTfSlhsDXTmcfpPm/2XC1DvByGfdg2Cfba++S8VoCNOZbo3My1Y= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777461760; c=relaxed/simple; bh=nM00K1yCTGWbLJ67CLFAJLSKUSfe1ahbLuQbeMdnPGg=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=ZpP5nS0MyMDWwmiexFNGAPdIAyIkGgoFIHKztNe6XqiIHmeqLEocerF7oZWigsS053/lRJpYRoIqzUAjZ/Q9o0eAYg0sw2vNQtPmGNzPtS7SF+u25vLRXBuy171twthZ+wXHC0g1qnam6D05tr2ihQXfEi6oJcFqB4bbhegsED4= ARC-Authentication-Results:i=1; smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=dolcini.it; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=dolcini.it; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=dolcini.it header.i=@dolcini.it header.b=wvEc/G6m; arc=none smtp.client-ip=217.194.8.81 Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dmarc=pass (p=none dis=none) header.from=dolcini.it Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=dolcini.it Authentication-Results: smtp.subspace.kernel.org; dkim=pass (2048-bit key) header.d=dolcini.it header.i=@dolcini.it header.b="wvEc/G6m" Received: from francesco-nb (93-49-2-63.ip317.fastwebnet.it [93.49.2.63]) by mail11.truemail.it (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 6607C22850; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:22:33 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dolcini.it; s=default; t=1777461754; bh=nM00K1yCTGWbLJ67CLFAJLSKUSfe1ahbLuQbeMdnPGg=; h=From:To:Subject; b=wvEc/G6mjBE0GxM4bzoHZxQsbtrNL6QfVqrpNXiJgj2hb4jmIBOjrMSDhj60KFiyx B12XCyED6SS4fMNsRpXPB5tMRVDX92AngCp8liFagKw35mNqFJiemKeJK+ZMBeLGwZ X4u7CVL3qsNsThc1gr6U7bC3+gYI5dk3yJ/0hwgXCz+6+Srjfu5l/r89DAl1mE0QeI REAYWN5VZH3QzxUnIx24Bstqhc/FLR8MBs+0rYBMAY9znW8lPQ7B5bnQTEvoTK3bWQ b/3XkBTlpQq3tvVtsUOFt0rcHjSp+N6n3kkb9k932QfMll9U9D2BqNP8sAezcnpV2g FAr2AjoEa2Zmw== Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:22:32 +0200 From: Francesco Dolcini To: Karel Balej Cc: Brian Norris , Francesco Dolcini , Johannes Berg , Rob Herring , Krzysztof Kozlowski , Conor Dooley , Duje =?utf-8?Q?Mihanovi=C4=87?= , Andrew Lunn , Gregory Clement , Sebastian Hesselbarth , Ulf Hansson , Frank Li , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-mmc@vger.kernel.org, ~postmarketos/upstreaming@lists.sr.ht, phone-devel@vger.kernel.org, Jeff Chen , Peng Fan , david@ixit.cz Subject: Re: [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 0/4] WiFi support for samsung,coreprimevelte Message-ID: <20260429112232.GD17033@francesco-nb> References: <20251026182602.26464-1-balejk@matfyz.cz> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Hello Karel, On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 12:55:23PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote: > without the firmware being in linux-firmware? What's the license of this firmware? Am I wrong saying that if the license allows it, you could just send a patch to have it integrated to the linux-firmware repository? Is there any history or documentation on the topic (please apologize if this is a well known topic, just answer RTFM if this is the case). I read a couple of days ago that for example the firmwares for the various Apple arm64 laptop cannot be redistributed and every single individual that wants to use those needs to extract those from their system. All of that seems just a legal matter, and IANAL ... Francesco