Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:41587 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932489Ab0I3VrX convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:47:23 -0400 Received: by iwn5 with SMTP id 5so2935808iwn.19 for ; Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:47:22 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1283374914-4554-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> References: <1283374914-4554-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2010 14:47:01 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] linux-firmware: update Atheros firmware license To: dwmw2@infradead.org Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, "Luis R. Rodriguez" , ath9k-devel@atheros.com, Len Widra , Brian Lee , Adam Tachner , Paul Lever , Vipin Mehta Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 2:01 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > This makes the license Operating System agnostic and updates > the patent license grant for use of the firmware license specifically > on the Atheros chipsets. > > This allows us to share the same license between all Atheros chipsets, > ath9k, ath9k_htc, ath6kl, and future chipsets. > > Cc: ath9k-devel@atheros.com > Cc: Len Widra > Cc: Brian Lee > Cc: Adam Tachner > Cc: Paul Lever > Cc: Vipin Mehta > Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez > --- >  LICENCE.atheros_firmware |    4 +--- >  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/LICENCE.atheros_firmware b/LICENCE.atheros_firmware > index d336492..e0ebdac 100644 > --- a/LICENCE.atheros_firmware > +++ b/LICENCE.atheros_firmware > @@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it >  now or hereafter owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, >  offer to sell and sell ("Utilize") this software, but solely to >  the extent that any such patent is necessary to Utilize the software > -alone, or in combination with an operating system licensed under an > -approved Open Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative > -at http://opensource.org/licenses.  The patent license shall not > +in conjunction with an Atheros Chipset. The patent license shall not >  apply to any other combinations which include this software. No >  hardware per se is licensed hereunder. > Just a friendly reminder. Luis