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Bug#854880: marked as done (firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code)

Your message dated Wed, 05 Apr 2017 23:26:45 +0100
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and subject line Re: Fwd: firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code
has caused the Debian Bug report #854880,
regarding firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code
to be marked as done.

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Package: firmware-atheros
Severity: serious

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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On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 14:41 +0000, Niels Thykier wrote:
> On Sat, 25 Feb 2017 19:29:05 +0100 Jan Luca Naumann
> > <j.naumann@fu-berlin.de> wrote:
> > 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
> > 
> > [...]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I cannot see a reply to this email on the Debian bug tracker.  Has there
> been any updates to this?

Sorry for the lack of response here.  Kyle McMartin has pointed out
that eCos is not licensed under plain GPL terms but has a linking
exception.  There should be no need to provide source when it's
included in a larger binary, as it is here.

(Debian should provide both source and binaries for this firmware in a
package in the main archive section, and that's what
open-ath9k-htc-firmware does.  There is still an issue with file naming
in that package, but when that's resolved I expect to remove the
version in firmware-atheros.)

Ben.

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