Re: Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss drivers

[Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@linsyssoft.com>]

CCing a person who can better comment.

Cheers,
Mithlesh Thukral

On Monday 06 April 2009 18:42:43 maximilian attems wrote:
> On Sun, 05 Apr 2009, Linux Kernel Mailing List wrote:
> > Gitweb:    
> > http://git.kernel.org/linus/ba0e1ebb7ea0616eebc29d2077355bacea62a9d8
> > Commit:     ba0e1ebb7ea0616eebc29d2077355bacea62a9d8
> > Parent:     19be358212af35bd64d449da82279874099a1a85
> > Author:     Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@linsyssoft.com>
> > AuthorDate: Wed Mar 25 15:52:54 2009 +0530
> > Committer:  Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > CommitDate: Fri Apr 3 14:54:38 2009 -0700
> >
> >     Staging: sxg: slicoss: Specify the license for Sahara SXG and Slicoss
> > drivers
> >
> >     Specify a license for the Alacritech Sahara (10Gbe) and SLICOSS
> > (1GBE) firmware files.
> >
> >     Signed-off-by: Christopher Harrer <charrer@alacritech.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Mithlesh Thukral <mithlesh@linsyssoft.com>
> >     Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
> > ---
> >  firmware/WHENCE |   33 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
> >  1 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/firmware/WHENCE b/firmware/WHENCE
> > index df79422..d6c227d 100644
> > --- a/firmware/WHENCE
> > +++ b/firmware/WHENCE
> > @@ -372,7 +372,21 @@ File: slicoss/oasisdbgdownload.sys.ihex
> >  File: slicoss/oasisdownload.sys.ihex
> >  File: slicoss/oasisrcvucode.sys.ihex
> >
> > -Licence: Unknown
> > +Licence:
> > +		Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Alacritech, Inc.
> > +
> > +	as an unpublished work. This notice does not imply unrestricted or
> > +	public access to the source code from which this firmware image is
> > +	derived.  Except as noted below this firmware image may not be
> > +	reproduced, used, sold or transferred to any third party without
> > +	Alacritech's prior written consent.  All Rights Reserved.
> > +
> > +	Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware
> > +	image as part of a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel
> > +	in text or binary form as required.
> > +
> > +	This firmware may not be modified and may only be used with
> > +	Alacritech hardware.
>
> have you read what you say?
>
> the last paragraph disables the distribution right,
> due beeing only allowed to be touched on alacritech hardware.
>
> i'm certainly not buying anything from alacritech,
> but would want to disbribute your fimware in Debian
> in the nonfree firmware-linux package for the benefit
> of your customers.
> -> http://packages.debian.org/sid/firmware-linux
>
> >  Found in hex form in kernel source.
> >
> > @@ -383,10 +397,23 @@ Driver: SXG - Alacritech IS-NIC products
> >  File: sxg/saharadownloadB.sys.ihex
> >  File: sxg/saharadbgdownloadB.sys.ihex
> >
> > -Licence: Unknown
> > +Licence:
> > +		Copyright (C) 1999-2009 Alacritech, Inc.
> > +
> > +	as an unpublished work. This notice does not imply unrestricted or
> > +	public access to the source code from which this firmware image is
> > +	derived.  Except as noted below this firmware image may not be
> > +	reproduced, used, sold or transferred to any third party without
> > +	Alacritech's prior written consent.  All Rights Reserved.
> > +
> > +	Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware
> > +	image as part of a Linux or other Open Source operating system kernel
> > +	in text or binary form as required.
> > +
> > +	This firmware may not be modified and may only be used with
> > +	Alacritech hardware.
>
> same trouble,
> nuke the "and may only be used with Alacritech hardware."