Re: SPDX: Appletalk FW license in the kernel

[Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>]

On 9/26/23 04:02, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2023 at 12:34:03AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 09:39:05AM -0400, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
>>> To be clear, I am not asking for their removal, however, I do think a better
>>> license should be issued for these files.  The files were trivially modified
>>> in 2006. It could be that the code in question is now unused and it is just
>>> easier to remove them.
>>>
>>> Is there anyone you know of that we could approach to determine a proper
>>> SPDX License for these files?
>>
>> The code contains firmware that is downloaded to the device.  The proper
>> thing would be to convert them to separate binary files in the
>> linux-firmware packages.  But given that the driver has seen nothing
>> but tree wide cleanups since the dawn of git I suspect there is no
>> maintainer and probably no user left.  The best might be to indeed just
>> remove it and see if anyone screams, in which case we could bring it
>> back after doing the above.
>>
> 
> We should just remove them for now, I have no objection to that at all.
> 
> Want me to send the patch?

Yes, that would be appreciated.  Thanks :)

P.

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
>