From: Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com>
CC: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org>,
	<ath10k@lists.infradead.org>,
	"netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] ath10k: add firmware files
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	<CAB=NE6WW8yX4kdy02j2fT4g0JvYj4a_XkiqYtXKZSMB7FHuwNg@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 19:07:29 +0200
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	(Luis R. Rodriguez's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2014 05:36:53 -0700")
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"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@do-not-panic.com> writes:

> On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 1:45 AM, Kalle Valo <kvalo@qca.qualcomm.com> wrote:
>
>> + NO LICENSES OR OTHER RIGHTS,
>> +WHETHER EXPRESS, IMPLIED, BASED ON ESTOPPEL OR OTHERWISE, ARE GRANTED
>> +TO ANY PARTY'S PATENTS, PATENT APPLICATIONS, OR PATENTABLE INVENTIONS
>> +BY VIRTUE OF THIS LICENSE OR THE DELIVERY OR PROVISION BY QUALCOMM
>> +ATHEROS, INC. OF THE SOFTWARE.
>
> This -- however is new to linux-firmware -- and I hereby raise a big
> red fucking flag. All other licenses on linux-firmware provide at the
> very least a limited patent grant. What makes Qualcomm special ?

Well, I was just told to use this license with our firmware, I didn't
write this.

-- 
Kalle Valo