Hi Ben, Jouni Malinen <jouni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, Apr 13, 2015 at 03:15:03PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > >> I have some concern about the narrower patent license in this version. >> >> The new patent license specifically excludes patents that are not owned >> by QCA (whereas the old license also included those 'controlled' by >> Atheros) and any that are obtained after the date of submission. This >> seems to allow revoking permission to distribute at a later date, if >> there are any other patent applications in the pipeline. >> >> If QCA wants the firmware to be redistributed freely (with the legal >> notices intact, only for use with their hardware) then I don't see what >> the point is of restricting the patent license in this way. > > I don't think there is such limitation for redistribution (see the > copyright license above in the "Redistribution" section). As far as the > limited patent license language is concerned, would the following > changes address your concern? Did you have a chance to look at the proposal? It would be good to solve this so that we can get the bluetooth firmware images to linux-firmware. -- Kalle Valo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
