> > With the carl9170 driver, the GPL firmware was required to be put > > as buildable source code into the linux-firmware tree. > An SDK that can be used to build QSR10G firmware is a ~240MB file in > compressed archive format, it includes GPL code as well as > proprietary components. > Our legal team included following clause in licence file coming with > firmware: > Information regarding the Open Source Components included with the > Software is available upon request to oslegal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > So the idea is that GPL components used in firmware can be provided > on request. I understand, and I understand that you/they are actually providing it when asked. However, the carl9170 project has its (entirely GPL) source tree out in the open, making it much *easier* and that was *still* thought to not be sufficient; I don't recall the discussions but I'm guessing that's because of something like redistributors having to make sure source is available, and guaranteeing that for a long time, etc. johannes
