On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 05:35:53PM -0600, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:47:03PM +0000, Vogel, Steve wrote: > > The license terms allow anyone to distribute (but not sell) the firmware but > > only for use on Intel products. > > Redistribution alone may be enough to be included in linux-firmware
I believe redistribution is sufficient as our legal team is well aware that this was to be released to linux-firmware and the distros. I submitted with the license which was approved by our legal team after having been assured it allowed for redistribution by linux-firmware and the distros. > > However, most of the additional terms (and there are lots of them) > this imposes beyond the usual likely make it impossible to include in a > distro, so pragmatically, there is no reason to push for inclusion in > linux-firmware. > > This is going to be a hard road for you guys. Falling in line with > every other Intel firmware blob's (i915, ibt, iwlwifi, SST2) license > would be much easier on you and the distros. We are working with Legal to come up with a license which is more in line with what already exists in linux-firmware. Ira > > Frankly, I think the onus is on you to get statements from the > licensing teams at Fedora, Debian, RH and SuSE on if they can include > work under this license or not. > > I suspect Fedora and Debian will both say they can't, just based on > their public policies and the additional restrictions in this > license.. But hey, I'm not a licensing lawyer.. > > Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
