From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754150Ab0JTQkv (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:40:51 -0400 Received: from mail-gy0-f174.google.com ([209.85.160.174]:61134 "EHLO mail-gy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753477Ab0JTQku (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Oct 2010 12:40:50 -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=BEAQEq59u5cGO9pHwaspywMJ/bqv5jS5fHb+uHYJU05LRqqq5wPKSiGzerVTJlnUkX Dzvn8zF7TF4Pw/bl/BpEcX3lUk7zVVZQiYBkcom2LIsT9/fZDyXwzQsVBh4J5zc3U6YB oFzK7o2xWJ6ale3vKtssu9phwOEfNNsAAYkI4= Message-ID: <4CBF1B00.20105@lwfinger.net> Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 11:38:24 -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: Arnd Bergmann CC: David Woodhouse , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU) References: <4cbdbf3b.Ek+PDAiA1jX27HRq%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <201010191935.40788.arnd@arndb.de> <4CBDE1C1.4020204@lwfinger.net> <201010192229.30133.arnd@arndb.de> In-Reply-To: <201010192229.30133.arnd@arndb.de> 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 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