From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Weimer Subject: GPL compliance issue with liquidio/lio_23xx_vsw.bin firmware Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2018 17:01:10 +0200 Message-ID: <13e96e81-8794-4d69-3df1-eb07a18655ac@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Derek Chickles , Satanand Burla , Felix Manlunas , Raghu Vatsavayi , Manish Awasthi To: linux-firmware@kernel.org Return-path: Received: from mx3-rdu2.redhat.com ([66.187.233.73]:59164 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726939AbeH0SsM (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Aug 2018 14:48:12 -0400 Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 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