Hi,
On 15-05-18 10:43, Arend van Spriel wrote:
On 5/14/2018 2:05 PM, Josh Boyer wrote:
n Mon, May 14, 2018 at 6:11 AM Arend van Spriel <
arend.vanspriel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 3/16/2018 3:08 PM, Chi-Hsien Lin wrote:
Update brcm firmware files and WHENCE accordingly.
Hi firmware-maintainers,
It seems this series somehow got lost. Can these still be applied. They
can be found in the linux-wireless patchwork database. I provided links
below.
All 5 of these move the respective firmware files under the Cypress
license. It has been pointed out that the Cypress license has some
questionable language in it and that people have been in touch to try and
get this resolved. I'm personally waiting on applying them until the
licence issue is sorted out.
Thanks, Josh
I could not find any such response. Has it been taken off-list? Seems like 2 months is quite some time, but maybe there are lawyers involved ;-)
Yes the discussion about this has been happening off-list. IANAL but
the gist of it is (AFAIK) that:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENCE.cypress
has a clause which allows Cypress to retro-actively revoke the LICENSE:
"either party may terminate this Agreement at any time with or without cause."
...
"Upon termination, you must destroy all copies of Software in your possession or
control."
So upon revokation we would have to remove the files from linux-firmware
(rewrite git history?) and since distros get their redistribution rights
from this license too they would also need to remove it from their packages
including all mirrors and archives of older versions. Which simply is not
feasible and no other license in linux-firmware has such a clause.
Regards,
Hans
