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From:   Christian Melki <christian.melki@t2data.com>
Subject: linux-firmware embedded usecase, licenses.
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Hi.

I have this usecase where I include selected parts of linux-firmware on 
an embedded machine. As the entire archive is pretty large, only the 
needed bits are copied.

Now my issue is that typical embedded build environments create their 
own little version of license/information selection hell. They do it so 
they can figure out which files belong to what license, etc.

https://github.com/buildroot/buildroot/blob/master/package/linux-firmware/linux-firmware.mk
https://git.yoctoproject.org/poky/plain/meta/recipes-kernel/linux-firmware/linux-firmware_20211216.bb
(and others)

So instead of everyone trying to work out the same information (and 
checking the integrity of that on every release), it would be nice if 
the WHENCE file was a bit more structured. That would help something 
like copy-firmware.sh (or similar) to do most of the mundane bits.

Regards,
Christian