From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754408Ab0JSQIb (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:08:31 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:42320 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753090Ab0JSQIa (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Oct 2010 12:08:30 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: Add firmware file for r8712u (RTL8192SU) From: David Woodhouse To: Larry Finger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <4CBDC23C.6050403@lwfinger.net> References: <4cbdbf3b.Ek+PDAiA1jX27HRq%Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> <1287503882.1084.22.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4CBDC23C.6050403@lwfinger.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2010 17:08:25 +0100 Message-ID: <1287504505.1084.23.camel@i7.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.91.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by casper.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 11:07 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > On 10/19/2010 10:58 AM, David Woodhouse wrote: > > On Tue, 2010-10-19 at 10:54 -0500, Larry Finger wrote: > >> + * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it > >> + * under the terms of version 2 of the GNU General Public License as > >> + * published by the Free Software Foundation. > > > > Where is the source code, then? > > > > The source code for the driver with inline firmware is in linux-next in > drivers/staging/rtl8712 and was pushed through GregKH. No. If you're stating that the *firmware* is under GPL, then we need to see the source code for the firmware. If not, try another description of the licence on the firmware. -- dwmw2