Re: submitting code to the usb subsystem

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Hi Greg

> 
> On Fri, Mar 09, 2012 at 09:46:31PM +0000, tilman wrote:
> > tilman <tilmanglotzner@...> writes:
> > 
> > 
> > > > As for copyrights, please ask the company what they want to do about
> > > > this, that's the nice thing to do.  Their response depends on what to
> do
> > > > next.
> > What "options" are there ? Do the need to publish the source code of the
> > firmware under GNU ? IO-Data would certainly not give its consent...
> 
> For firmware?  See the wide range of different license types in the
> linux-firmware package as examples of valid licenses they can use.
> Surely there is one in there that they can agree with.

IOData refused. I can use the firmware personally on my computer (as I have
extracted it anyways) but they don't want me to submit it to the firmware 
package.
Are the other options ? The most obvious one would be to write my own firmware
and publish it under GNU...

Tilman

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