Hi,
On 10-01-19 10:45, Chi-Hsien Lin wrote:
On 01/10/2019 4:50, Hans de Goede wrote:
Hi,
On 10-01-19 09:16, Chi-Hsien Lin wrote:
So the linux firmware version is *three and a half* years out of date!
Thanks a lot for the reference. This discussion could be moved to the V2
thread.
We are not asking you to do special Linux builds, Linux can use the per
board Windows files just fine, all we need is permission to distribute this
and then Linux users will run their boards with the same qualified firmware
files as are being used under Windows.
I remember that this has been brought up a while back and I did check
with the Cypress bluetooth team about it. The answer I got is that the
files were committed before the Cypress acquisition and our bluetooth
team couldn't even locate these files in our server. So, unfortunately
we cannot modify the license for firmware files that are not released by us.
AFAICT Cypress owns the copyright on these files, IANAL but it is not
necessary for Cypress to (re)distribute these files under the new license.
As copyright holder Cypress can simply give permission to distribute
these files under the:
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/tree/LICENCE.cypress
license.
Regards,
Hans
