From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755502Ab0JSQ0c (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:26:32 -0400 Received: from mail-px0-f174.google.com ([209.85.212.174]:52511 "EHLO mail-px0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754926Ab0JSQ0b (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:26:31 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=TMBXSENj8WXtbaeCZeF0S+EqC8XzWgXLPwqPiWkRxq/eSt93E8ZrKAY5NaDsD6fC/n MUa5Jr9yBfa7F+XvlV9BY0/y2NRyPtWjwWDKHe24n6TaNUwt2qeARWOKEOnV/v54xDiL 09j+A9jLkTkkkjYS2U0KD7c5NmICtfm2wiVck= Message-ID: <4CBDC6AF.3060902@lwfinger.net> Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:26:23 -0500 From: Larry Finger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.12) Gecko/20100914 SUSE/3.0.8 Thunderbird/3.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Woodhouse CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU) References: <4cbdbf3b.Ek+PDAiA1jX27HRq%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <1287503882.1084.22.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4CBDC23C.6050403@lwfinger.net> <1287504505.1084.23.camel@i7.infradead.org> In-Reply-To: <1287504505.1084.23.camel@i7.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/19/2010 11:08 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 11:07 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >> On 10/19/2010 10:58 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: >>> On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 10:54 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: >>>> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it >>>> + * under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as >>>> + * published by the Free Software Foundation. >>> >>> Where is the source code, then? >>> >> >> The source code for the driver with inline firmware is in linux-next in >> drivers/staging/rtl8712 and was pushed through GregKH. > > No. If you're stating that the *firmware* is under GPL, then we need to > see the source code for the firmware. If not, try another description of > the licence on the firmware. In the source code originally provided by Realtek, the firmware is inlined in a header file. Unfortunately, it does not have any license information provided and starts with /* Firmware */ static const unsigned char f_array[122328] = { 0x12, 0x87, 0xEC, 0x11, 0x30, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x08, 0xE8, 0x00, 0x00, 0x50, 0xF5, 0x00, 0x00, 0x30, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00, 0x98, 0xF3, 0x00, 0x00, The license information that I put into WHENCE is in the source-code file that contains the MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) statement. As the firmware header file is part of that set of files, I thought the GPL license would apply to all. Is that not so? If not, I'm not sure how to proceed. Larry