On 07/19/2012 03:46 AM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Tue, 2012-07-17 at 18:39 +0200, Xose Vazquez Perez wrote: >> firmware for zd1211rw, ZyDAS/Atheros ZD1211/ZD1211B/AR5007UG wireless driver. >> >> Cc: Daniel Drake <dsd@xxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx >> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> Signed-off-by: Xose Vazquez Perez <xose.vazquez@xxxxxxxxx> >> --- >> README >> >> This distribution contains the firmware files for the >> ZD1211 chip, which is used in WLAN USB sticks. Copy the zd1211_* files to >> /lib/firmware/zd1211, where they can be loaded by the rewritten >> zd1211 driver. >> >> The files are generated from C header files distributed in the >> original ZyDAS ZD1211 driver under the GNU Public License. >> >> The full source of the original ZYDAS driver is available from >> http://zd1211.wiki.sourceforge.net/VendorDriver >> >> The GPL-licensed header files used to produce the firmware blobs are also >> present in this distribution. > [...] > > Not in this patch, though. > > And if you're referring to C sources with arrays of bytes - this is not > really the preferred form for modification, so the blobs cannot be > distributed under the GNU GPL. This is surely a mistake by the > copyright holder, but they need to clarify the licence that was really > intended for the firmware. > > (There were some in-tree drivers where this same mistake was made, for > which you will see in WHENCE: 'Allegedly GPLv2+, but no source visible'. > These are kept in linux-firmware to avoid regression of those drivers. > The unclear licence does pose some legal risk, but hopefully no more > than previously existed with the blobs embedded in the kernel source. > However, I don't see any reason to accept bogus licence information for > blobs that were not previously included in the kernel source.) Well, there is no source code of this firmware. And the original hardware manufacturer was bought a long time ago by Atheros, later Atheros by Qualcomm. So there is no one to contact. This is a dead end for me, I can't do any more. If someone needs this firmware, it can be downloaded from: http://sourceforge.net/projects/zd1211/files/ -thank you- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
