Bug#854880: Fwd: firmware-atheros ships binary ath9k_htc firmwares containing GPL code
Ben Hutchings:
> 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.
>
Ack, thanks for checking this. :)
Thanks,
~Niels
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