Hi,
On 09/13/2018 07:59 PM, Simo Sorce wrote:
On Thu, 2018-09-13 at 16:07 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 10-09-18 14:40, Abhiram Kuchibhotla wrote:
According to the LICENSE file in their git repo, the code in the repo seems to be gplv2. Not sure if that proves anything. I'll do the licensecheck -r later and update you guys.
On Mon 10 Sep, 2018, 6:08 PM Richard Shaw, <hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx <mailto:hobbes1069@xxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
On Mon, Sep 10, 2018 at 7:27 AM Rex Dieter <rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:rdieter@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
Jan Rybar wrote:
> Hi Abhiram,
>
> you can make COPR. No one asks, no harm done, everyone's happy.
I don't think copr is appropriate either,
https://docs.pagure.org/copr.copr/user_documentation.html#faq
To me, makes it pretty clear that if it can't be in fedora, it can't be in
copr either.
You need to go through the code (maybe use licensecheck -r to help) to see if all the code is acceptable. If so I'll defer to Neal on the COPR acceptability. Another alternative is until formal support is added to the kernel you can look at packaging it in RPM Fusion. If it's truly FOSS but just not acceptable because it's a kernel module it can go in the Free repository. If it's using proprietary code (even if the project is GPL licensed) then as long as it's redistributable, it can go in the Non-Free repository.
This looks like a standard realtek driver which realtek creates for Android devices
or some such. The code is not pretty (I really wish realtek would start contributing
proper drivers to the mainline kernel) but it usually is all GPL licensed, except
for the firmware for the NIC. I don't see firmware in the git repo, so the code
may need to be adjusted to use the kernels firmware-load mechanism (I assume
it has the firmware embedded atm).
The firmware files themselves may be distributed under this license:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENCE.rtlwifi_firmware.txt
Note I did not check the files in the git repo, I just took a quick peek
that it is a "standard" out of tree realtek driver.
Also IANAL and TINLA.
I also have to use this driver for a USB dongle that works very well
... when I remember to check dkms didn't fail to build on kernel
upgrade ...
There is no firmware needed apparently, but my dongle doesn't work with
driver 5.2 which is the latest, so maybe a firmware is needed but the
driver itself doesn't load it ?
It would be really nice to have this driver in the kernel though as a
huge amount of cheap dongles use this chipset family, what would be the
process to get it in ?
You can submit it for inclusion into drivers/staging, there are already
some realtek drivers for other chipsets there for similar reasons.
Real inclusion would require a complete rewrite of the driver mostly.
Regards,
Hans
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