From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail-we0-f171.google.com ([74.125.82.171]:64446 "EHLO mail-we0-f171.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755031Ab3ALARF (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jan 2013 19:17:05 -0500 Received: by mail-we0-f171.google.com with SMTP id u3so1092100wey.2 for ; Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:17:03 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <50F0AB7C.6030609@gmail.com> (sfid-20130112_011710_390508_6A2AAA5E) Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:17:00 +0100 From: Xose Vazquez Perez MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ben Hutchings CC: Daniel Drake , Ulrich Kunitz , linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, David Woodhouse Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: add zd1211rw firmware References: <1342543168-6666-1-git-send-email-xose.vazquez@gmail.com> <1342662412.11373.81.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <1342662412.11373.81.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 07/19/2012 03:46 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 18:39 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> firmware for zd1211rw, ZyDAS/Atheros ZD1211/ZD1211B/AR5007UG wireless driver. >> >> Cc: Daniel Drake >> Cc: Ulrich Kunitz >> Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org >> Cc: David Woodhouse >> Cc: Ben Hutchings >> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez >> --- >> README >> >> This distribution contains the firmware files for the >> ZD1211 chip, which is used in WLAN USB sticks. Copy the zd1211_* files to >> /lib/firmware/zd1211, where they can be loaded by the rewritten >> zd1211 driver. >> >> The files are generated from C header files distributed in the >> original ZyDAS ZD1211 driver under the GNU Public License. >> >> The full source of the original ZYDAS driver is available from >> http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/VendorDriver >> >> The GPL-licensed header files used to produce the firmware blobs are also >> present in this distribution. > [...] > > Not in this patch, though. > > And if you're referring to C sources with arrays of bytes - this is not > really the preferred form for modification, so the blobs cannot be > distributed under the GNU GPL. This is surely a mistake by the > copyright holder, but they need to clarify the licence that was really > intended for the firmware. > > (There were some in-tree drivers where this same mistake was made, for > which you will see in WHENCE: 'Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible'. > These are kept in linux-firmware to avoid regression of those drivers. > The unclear licence does pose some legal risk, but hopefully no more > than previously existed with the blobs embedded in the kernel source. > However, I don't see any reason to accept bogus licence information for > blobs that were not previously included in the kernel source.) Well, there is no source code of this firmware. And the original hardware manufacturer was bought a long time ago by Atheros, later Atheros by Qualcomm. So there is no one to contact. This is a dead end for me, I can't do any more. If someone needs this firmware, it can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/files/ -thank you-