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 5F2FD3FE667; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 13:40:19 +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=1777470023; cv=none; b=I66kcZfELtPISjrnu9Trpi4K+uX7/thNHrBliglmgEwZgzbBSe56Oa6pO1DuSv6+S4KNvxIjCQfDeINqn32S2rYyaM7wC+vLVAJ3+D8aj8TNPd28N1D0RHUUwzHLFLCWHdy3gAEjTY9RJGzJvHon9LzVrTT3Qnm5a9ThcZJ3fSI= ARC-Message-Signature:i=1; a=rsa-sha256; d=subspace.kernel.org; s=arc-20240116; t=1777470023; c=relaxed/simple; bh=ubA9OYFNJvf2zxEAbK0cumXlbYJQl0x/+LIO+/dpBqo=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:Message-ID:References:MIME-Version: Content-Type:Content-Disposition:In-Reply-To; b=tu2vbRj7CxB2UXQldfbnV1tRJqdElUr+chJQNRsDKxqZMBpWnyA2FRNVaPOB209dKRu/2VKLHKbwX95MQjwLlDPfKQwhBxzI+geIVfD18GKZCglqEperrGX1y4X+2sOTsgolOz9a/YNimnf2u6CLjOBDQE18BnTghuOU8veYIYU= 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=tAezjJF2; 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="tAezjJF2" Received: from francesco-nb (93-49-2-63.ip317.fastwebnet.it [93.49.2.63]) by mail11.truemail.it (Postfix) with ESMTPA id A054F22BA3; Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:40:14 +0200 (CEST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=dolcini.it; s=default; t=1777470015; bh=wbdghP89407ki72C54bZEEXFY2jq+D9w1Aq8ZiLnoZw=; h=From:To:Subject; b=tAezjJF24BF4hg11VMQFul5zOsbu6N1rm0cj6pHYem2jSptlxX6CHhVV9lTNJvnU5 /0C9M5TyXuezBAZPtd6OYF5NgcNCmoQIimB5W6oVTanbpzAPfcdOVlMrad5D02Eokv eZ3rBhmRnqJLrbtrHLD0hXoVM5Eto+AlnIFVQxLNevkxhfz1B2edLbzo2kKwvPSqXv A4/Jf+0gf1vYElZBZy9E9m5PgcNIxEOIBluMP6SZFV44Rq/pHbj1ljvZcddF7Pf44J jNzTpLh0RlzHjl+IO8nhiJ/HcUEqAaO+ZgwVB2y8ezTL8whQ8S7ieVkksU+zQYfJUC gpTf7+FWWcnrg== Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2026 15:40:11 +0200 From: Francesco Dolcini To: Karel Balej Cc: Francesco Dolcini , Brian Norris , 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: <20260429134011.GA73482@francesco-nb> References: <20251026182602.26464-1-balejk@matfyz.cz> <20260429112232.GD17033@francesco-nb> 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: On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 03:20:28PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote: > Francesco Dolcini, 2026-04-29T13:22:32+02:00: > > 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). > > that's one of the issues, the license is not specified explicitly > anywhere as far as I know. That's enough to be blocked. > As far as I know, even if I was to submit the firmware myself, it would > still require a sign-off from someone from NXP [1]. And this is clearly there to avoid situation that are problematic from a legal point of view. I do not see any way forward without NXP. Francesco > [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/about/#signed-off-by-requirement