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[66.187.233.206]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id m19-20020ae9e713000000b0076c8fd39407sm1719099qka.113.2023.09.26.06.49.26 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Tue, 26 Sep 2023 06:49:26 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2023 09:49:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.13.0 Subject: Re: SPDX: Appletalk FW license in the kernel Content-Language: en-US To: Greg KH , Christoph Hellwig Cc: Dave Miller , Vitaly Kuznetsov , jschlst@samba.org, linux-kernel , linux-spdx@vger.kernel.org References: <6100798b-ab1d-262a-fd5b-435d6dfc4a53@redhat.com> <2023092606-fiction-finlike-97a5@gregkh> From: Prarit Bhargava In-Reply-To: <2023092606-fiction-finlike-97a5@gregkh> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 >