Hi Oliver, > @Mauro: > Is there a way to strip this stuff from Kconfig/Makefile/av7110*.[ch] > for submission to the kernel? Basically I don't care whether and how > they cripple the driver in the kernel. But I would like to keep the code > 'as is' in the linuxtv repositories. Having a binary firmware inside a GPL'd file seems to be (at least for some people) a GPL violation, since the firmware source code should also be released with GPL (please read [1] for a good article about this). This seems to be one of the reasons for moving all firmwares that are still in kernel into a separate dir. A latter step seems to move those files to a cousin tree, hosted together with kernel tree, and clearly stating that those firmwares are not GPL, but are allowed to be used with Linux. IANAL, but, if the firmware is violating GPL at Kernel, the same violation also affects our tree. So, from legal POV, I think we ought to do the same thing at V4L/DVB. Probably, it is safe to keep the firmware files into a separate dir, if we state clearly that the firmwares are not GPL. Anyway, let's see how we can handle it after having those patches merged at mainstream. [1] http://lwn.net/Articles/284932/ Cheers, Mauro -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxx Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
