Return-path: Received: from mail-iw0-f174.google.com ([209.85.214.174]:53185 "EHLO mail-iw0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756668Ab1DVVvo convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 17:51:44 -0400 Received: by iwn34 with SMTP id 34so716952iwn.19 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:51:43 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <1283374914-4554-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 14:50:02 -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 Fri, Apr 22, 2011 at 2:38 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Thu, Sep 30, 2010 at 2:47 PM, Luis R. Rodriguez > wrote: >> 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. > > David, > > Just noticed this was never applied. I'll resubmit with the ath6kl firmware now. Luis