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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: linux-firmware@kernel.org
Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	Derek Chickles <derek.chickles@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Satanand Burla <satananda.burla@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Raghu Vatsavayi <raghu.vatsavayi@caviumnetworks.com>,
	Manish Awasthi <manish.awasthi@cavium.com>
Subject: GPL compliance issue with liquidio/lio_23xx_vsw.bin firmware
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:01:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <13e96e81-8794-4d69-3df1-eb07a18655ac@redhat.com> (raw)

liquidio/lio_23xx_vsw.bin contains a compiled MIPS Linux kernel:

$ tail --bytes=+1313 liquidio/lio_23xx_vsw.bin > elf
$ readelf -aW elf
[…]
   [ 6] __ksymtab         PROGBITS        ffffffff80e495f8 64a5f8 00d130 
00   A  0   0  8
   [ 7] __ksymtab_gpl     PROGBITS        ffffffff80e56728 657728 008400 
00   A  0   0  8
   [ 8] __ksymtab_strings PROGBITS        ffffffff80e5eb28 65fb28 018868 
00   A  0   0  1
[…]
Symbol table '.symtab' contains 1349 entries:
    Num:    Value          Size Type    Bind   Vis      Ndx Name
      0: 0000000000000000     0 NOTYPE  LOCAL  DEFAULT  UND
      1: 0000000000000000     0 FILE    LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS 
arch/mips/kernel/head.o
      2: 0000000000000000     0 FILE    LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS init/main.c
      3: 0000000000000000     0 FILE    LOCAL  DEFAULT  ABS 
include/linux/types.h
[…]

Yet there is no corresponding source provided, and LICENCE.cavium lacks 
the required notices.

Thanks,
Florian

             reply	other threads:[~2018-08-27 18:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-08-27 15:01 Florian Weimer [this message]
2018-08-28  0:04 ` GPL compliance issue with liquidio/lio_23xx_vsw.bin firmware Felix Manlunas
2018-08-29 20:26   ` Ben Hutchings
2018-09-07 22:58     ` Felix Manlunas

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