From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU)
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:38:24 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CBF1B00.20105@lwfinger.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201010192229.30133.arnd@arndb.de>
On 10/19/2010 03:29 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tuesday 19 October 2010 20:21:53 Larry Finger wrote:
>
> Ok, so if you have the firmware source, add a proper make file and the source along
> with the binary file. You made it sound like the you only had the firmware as
> a hexdump, which would not be possible under the GPLv2 section 3, which says
> "The source code for a work means the preferred form of the work for making
> modifications to it".
Having a patch with the full firmware source and the binary as well seems a bit
large, but I will supply it that way.
>> That Merello copyright really has little to do with the current driver. As
>> Realtek included it in their source, I left it in, but consider it to be an
>> honorary citation.
>
> That part is fine, what is not fine is the "All rights reserved" portion, which
> contradicts the GPL.
Yes, it is schizophrenic, but I left it the way it was.
Larry
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-10-20 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-10-19 15:54 [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU) Larry Finger
2010-10-19 15:58 ` David Woodhouse
2010-10-19 16:07 ` Larry Finger
2010-10-19 16:08 ` David Woodhouse
2010-10-19 16:26 ` Larry Finger
2010-10-19 17:35 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-19 18:21 ` Larry Finger
2010-10-19 20:29 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-10-20 16:38 ` Larry Finger [this message]
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