Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-04 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 04-12-2012 03:07, Ben Hutchings escreveu: On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers? I suppose the policy should be that the driver's licence must allow extracting and then distributing the result. Which I

Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-04 Thread Tim Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/03/2012 10:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: >> Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows >> drivers? > > > I'm not sure how you can say they are the same files, as

Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-04 Thread Tim Gardner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 On 12/03/2012 10:07 PM, Ben Hutchings wrote: On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers? snip I'm not sure how you can say they are the same files, as you're

Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-04 Thread Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Em 04-12-2012 03:07, Ben Hutchings escreveu: On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers? I suppose the policy should be that the driver's licence must allow extracting and then distributing the result. Which I

Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: > Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers? I suppose the policy should be that the driver's licence must allow extracting and then distributing the result. Which I wouldn't expect ever to be the case, in

[GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-03 Thread Tim Gardner
Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers? It seems like it ought to be OK, and they _are_ the same files that are covered under the license in WHENCE. The following changes since commit bda53ca96deb3cacbef10a7a84bbaee2d09c7f34: brcm: new firmware version for

[GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-03 Thread Tim Gardner
Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers? It seems like it ought to be OK, and they _are_ the same files that are covered under the license in WHENCE. The following changes since commit bda53ca96deb3cacbef10a7a84bbaee2d09c7f34: brcm: new firmware version for

Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

2012-12-03 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote: Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers? I suppose the policy should be that the driver's licence must allow extracting and then distributing the result. Which I wouldn't expect ever to be the case, in practice.