Re: [GIT PULL] linux-firmware: cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139

[Ben Hutchings]

On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:13 -0700, Tim Gardner wrote:
> Ben - what is your policy on extracting firmware from Windows drivers?

I suppose the policy should be that the driver's licence must allow
extracting and then distributing the result.  Which I wouldn't expect
ever to be the case, in practice.

Your commit message refers to the Hauppuage driver package at
<http://steventoth.net/linux/hvr1800/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0_1_25_25271_WHQL.zip>.  I didn't find any licence text, other than 'All rights reserved', in either that or the currently distributed version of the same driver <http://www.wintvcd.co.uk/drivers/HVR-12x0-14x0-17x0-33x0-44x0_1_48_29272_SIGNED.zip>.

> It seems like it ought to be OK, and they _are_ the same files that are
> covered under the license in WHENCE.

I'm not sure how you can say they are the same files, as you're
proposing to change the contents.  The copyright on the current files
belongs to the chipset vendor, Conexant, and Hauppuage *presumably* used
firmware supplied by Conexant, but either of them might have chosen a
different licence for the versions in this driver package.

> The following changes since commit bda53ca96deb3cacbef10a7a84bbaee2d09c7f34:
> 
>   brcm: new firmware version for brcmsmac (2012-12-03 14:46:28 +0000)
> 
> are available in the git repository at:
> 
>   git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rtg/linux-firmware.git master
> 
> for you to fetch changes up to 3c592f80519a7e82eadeccfad7a5cd1604ca463c:
> 
>   cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139 (2012-12-03 11:07:43 -0700)
> 
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> Tim Gardner (1):
>       cx23885: update to Version 2.06.139
> 
>  v4l-cx23885-avcore-01.fw |  Bin 16382 -> 16382 bytes
>  v4l-cx23885-enc.fw       |  Bin 16382 -> 376836 bytes
>  2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

How odd, these two files are currently identical to each other...

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Always try to do things in chronological order;
it's less confusing that way.

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