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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html