Re: GPL compliance issue with liquidio/lio_23xx_vsw.bin firmware

[Felix Manlunas <felix.manlunas@cavium.com>]

On Mon, Aug 27, 2018 at 05:01:10PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> 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

Cavium apologizes for the oversight.  Cavium has been advertising the
appropriate license terms including the existence of GPL in the firmware
in our outbox releases. We will update the license terms in LICENCE.cavium
in our upstream contribution in collaboration with our legal team.

Felix