Dne 28. 05. 19 v 21:37 Takashi Iwai napsal(a): > On Tue, 28 May 2019 21:24:39 +0200, > Connor McAdams wrote: >> >> Yes, I did end up getting permission from Creative themselves to >> redistribute the files. That was back in November of 2018. >> >> I also asked them to email Takashi Iwai to confirm, which I think they >> ended up doing. >> >> My contact within Creative has not responded since December of 2018, >> when I asked for a name to go with the email he told me to use for the >> sign-off, and I think that was why the Linux firmware people weren't >> willing to accept it. > > Right, basically these two files align with the already existing other > ca0132 firmware files in the repo. But the problem was just that the > submitter was the third person, which is quite unusual. Ok, thanks. It might make sense to indicate this in the commit message (clarify the licence - use forced push, if you like). Jaroslav > > > Takashi > >> >> If you need any more information, let me know. >> >> On Tue, May 28, 2019 at 3:19 PM Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> Dne 28. 05. 19 v 19:47 Takashi Iwai napsal(a): >>>> On Tue, 28 May 2019 18:38:48 +0200, >>>> Jaroslav Kysela wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Dne 28. 05. 19 v 16:54 Takashi Iwai napsal(a): >>>>>> Hi, >>>>>> >>>>>> it seems that Connor's previous attempt to put a couple of ca0132 >>>>>> firmware files into linux-firmware tree didn't go through, >>>>>> unfortunately. And now I'm thinking of taking them into alsa-firmware >>>>>> package as a stop-gap. We already distribute other ca0132 firmware >>>>>> files, so the addition shouldn't be a big problem. >>>>>> >>>>>> Jaroslav, what do you think? >>>>> >>>>> No problem. The same situation is for the SoC SOF firmware files (drivers are >>>>> in kernel, firmware files are missing). Perhaps, we can release those files >>>>> quickly in alsa-firmware and then migrate them slowly to linux-firmware. >>>> >>>> OK, now pushed to alsa-firmware git repo. >>>> >>>> BTW, the situation is slightly different from SOF. At this time, the >>>> problem was that it's been submitted by a third person. >>> >>> Ok, so we don't have a licence for those files? Connor, have you tried to >>> contact Creative for a permission to use/distribute those files? >>> >>> Jaroslav >>> >>> -- >>> Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> >>> Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc. >> -- Jaroslav Kysela <perex@xxxxxxxx> Linux Sound Maintainer; ALSA Project; Red Hat, Inc. _______________________________________________ Alsa-devel mailing list Alsa-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://mailman.alsa-project.org/mailman/listinfo/alsa-devel
