Bug#854880: Fwd: firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code
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Dear Linux-Firmware-Maintainers,
as reported in the Debian bug report #854880[1] (mail attached below),
the firmware files ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.4.0.fw,
ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw has been created using GPL components and
thus the source code has to be included.
Can you please take a look on the issue? IMHO it is the best to fix
this directly in the upstream linux-firmware repository.
Thank you,
Jan
[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=854880
On Sat, 11 Feb 2017 15:09:30 +0100 Julian Andres Klode
<jak@debian.org> wrote:
> The binary files
>
> Files: ath9k_htc/htc_7010-1.4.0.fw, ath9k_htc/htc_9271-1.4.0.fw
>
> were created from files that include GPL components according to
> the copyright file, specially, the eCos files:
>
> eCos is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
> under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
> the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 or (at your option)
> any later version. . As a special exception, if other files
> instantiate templates or use macros or inline functions from this
> file, or you compile this file and link it with other works to
> produce a work based on this file, this file does not by itself
> cause the resulting work to be covered by the GNU General Public
> License. However the source code for this file must still be made
> available in accordance with section (3) of the GNU General Public
> License. . This exception does not invalidate any other reasons why
> a work based on this file might be covered by the GNU General
> Public License.
>
> These need to be either added to the package or the firmware needs
> to be removed from the archive.
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