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 >>> <[email protected]> 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
