On Tue, Aug 11, 2015 at 10:47:03PM +0000, Vogel, Steve wrote: > The license terms allow anyone to distribute (but not sell) the firmware but > only for use on Intel products.
Redistribution alone may be enough to be included in linux-firmware However, most of the additional terms (and there are lots of them) this imposes beyond the usual likely make it impossible to include in a distro, so pragmatically, there is no reason to push for inclusion in linux-firmware. This is going to be a hard road for you guys. Falling in line with every other Intel firmware blob's (i915, ibt, iwlwifi, SST2) license would be much easier on you and the distros. Frankly, I think the onus is on you to get statements from the licensing teams at Fedora, Debian, RH and SuSE on if they can include work under this license or not. I suspect Fedora and Debian will both say they can't, just based on their public policies and the additional restrictions in this license.. But hey, I'm not a licensing lawyer.. Jason -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-rdma" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
