Bug#982741: ITP: rtl8821cu -- dkms source for the rtl8821cu network driver

2021-02-13 Thread Alexander Gerasiov 
Thanks for pointing out on this moment. Totally miss it. I'll try to clarify 
that issue with copyright holder. (They have many of fws in 
kernel/firmware-realtek, so there should be some common practice for realtek to 
relicense or something like that)

On 14 February 2021 04:37:57 GMT+03:00, Paul Wise  wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 8:21 PM Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:
>
>> * License : GPL-2 with firmware BLOB
>...
>> Since there is the generated firmware BLOB is the source files
>
>That sounds like a violation of the GPL, so we probably cannot
>redistribute this?
>
>-- 
>bye,
>pabs
>
>https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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Bug#982741: ITP: rtl8821cu -- dkms source for the rtl8821cu network driver

2021-02-13 Thread Paul Wise 
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 8:21 PM Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote:

> * License : GPL-2 with firmware BLOB
...
> Since there is the generated firmware BLOB is the source files

That sounds like a violation of the GPL, so we probably cannot
redistribute this?

-- 
bye,
pabs

https://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

Bug#982741: ITP: rtl8821cu -- dkms source for the rtl8821cu network driver

2021-02-13 Thread Alexander GQ Gerasiov 
Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Alexander GQ Gerasiov 
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-de...@lists.debian.org

* Package name: rtl8821cu
  Version : 5.8.1.7
  Upstream Author : RealTek
* URL : https://github.com/gerasiov/rtl8821cu
* License : GPL-2 with firmware BLOB
  Programming Lang: C
  Description : dkms source for the rtl8821cu network driver

This is the driver for the RealTek RTL8811CU/RTL8821CU USB WiFi controllers,
which are not supported by mainline Linux kernel this days.
Since there is the generated firmware BLOB is the source files, the package
will go to non-free/kernel section of the archive.