From: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@denx.de>
Cc: "Sebastian Reichel" <sre@debian.org>,
"Pali Rohár" <pali.rohar@gmail.com>,
"Ивайло Димитров" <freemangordon@abv.bg>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org development"
<linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org>,
"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: Add hci_h4p driver
Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 01:12:21 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1392772341.10088.56.camel@deadeye.wl.decadent.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140215223006.GA19186@amd.pavel.ucw.cz>
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On Sat, 2014-02-15 at 23:30 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > >> > Firmware files are available for download from nemo project:
> > > >> >
> > > >> > https://api.merproject.org/public/source/nemo:devel:hw:ti:om
> > > >> > ap3:n900/bcm-bt-firmware/bcm-bt-firmware-0.21rc3.tar.bz2
> > > >> > https://api.merproject.org/public/source/nemo:devel:hw:ti:o
> > > >> > map3:n950-n9/ti-wl1273-bt-firmware/bt-firmware-ti1273_0.23+0
> > > >> > m6.tar.gz
> > > >>
> > > >> Would be nice to have them added to the linux-firmware.git.
> > > >
> > > Now when driver is queued for staging, can somebody add firmware files
> > > to linux-firmware repository? Note that without firmware files, driver
> > > not working...
> >
> > I just had a look at the file for the Nokia N900
> > (bcm-bt-firmware-0.21rc3.tar.bz2) and I think the license is too
> > restrictive for linux-firmware.git. Actually I can't see any
> > statement allowing redistribution. For reference this is the license
> > text:
> >
> > Copyright (c) Nokia Corporation 2010
> > All Rights Reserved.
> >
> > This material, including documentation and any related computer programs, is
> > protected by copyright controlled by Nokia Corporation. All rights are
> > reserved. Modifying, adapting and/or translating, any or all of this material
> > requires the prior written consent of Nokia. Distribution for commercial
> > purposes not allowed without prior written approval from Nokia.
>
> With my lingvistics hat on, this says "distribution for non-commercial
> purposes is ok". (Because otherwise, they would say "Distribution not
> allowed without ...")
It implies that ('the exception proves the rule'), but that's not
something I would like to rely on.
Anyway, I think that anything added to linux-firmware.git ought to be
safe to include in a commercial distribution, so a non-commercial
restriction can't be accepted.
Ben.
--
Ben Hutchings
Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.) - Stafford Beer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-02-19 1:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-09-20 19:01 [PATCH] " Pali Rohár
2013-10-17 20:25 ` Pali Rohár
2013-10-17 22:11 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-10-18 10:30 ` Pali Rohár
2013-10-24 16:41 ` Pali Rohár
2013-10-24 18:41 ` Joe Perches
2013-10-26 19:28 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-27 11:02 ` [PATCH v2] " Pali Rohár
2013-12-27 11:34 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-28 1:21 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-12-30 12:13 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-30 12:25 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-30 13:19 ` Sebastian Reichel
2013-12-30 14:04 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-30 13:54 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-30 12:23 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-30 14:31 ` Pali Rohár
2013-12-30 14:52 ` Sebastian Reichel
2013-12-30 23:42 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-01-08 21:36 ` Pali Rohár
2014-02-13 15:33 ` Pali Rohár
2014-02-14 17:28 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-02-15 22:30 ` Pavel Machek
2014-02-19 1:12 ` Ben Hutchings [this message]
2013-12-30 22:18 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-30 22:19 ` [PATCH] wilink: mention name of module in help text Pavel Machek
2013-12-30 22:28 ` [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: Add hci_h4p driver Pavel Machek
2013-12-30 22:48 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-31 22:12 ` Pavel Machek
2013-12-31 23:23 ` Marcel Holtmann
2014-01-01 20:09 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-02 16:18 ` [PATCH v3] " Pavel Machek
2014-01-02 16:34 ` Marcel Holtmann
2014-01-03 0:17 ` [PATCH v4] " Pavel Machek
2014-01-03 1:05 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-01-05 22:32 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-05 23:01 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-01-06 0:27 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-03 1:36 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-01-09 23:38 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-10 0:32 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-01-10 12:18 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-10 13:44 ` Sebastian Reichel
2014-01-10 14:49 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-10 14:52 ` [PATCH v5] " Pavel Machek
2014-01-10 17:33 ` Joe Perches
2014-01-11 0:19 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-11 0:28 ` [PATCH v6] " Pavel Machek
2014-01-16 0:22 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-16 3:01 ` Marcel Holtmann
2014-01-17 12:14 ` Pavel Machek
2014-01-17 13:29 ` [PATCH v7] staging/bluetooth: " Pavel Machek
2014-01-17 13:34 ` [PATCH] Bluetooth: add module name for btwilink Pavel Machek
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