Re: [GNU-linux-libre] Non-free file in open-ath9k-htc-firmware

[Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott]

On 2014-11-14 21:03, Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott wrote:
> On 2014-11-13 13:00, Luke Shumaker wrote:
>> At Sun, 26 Oct 2014 18:47:40 -0400,
>> Patrick 'P. J.' McDermott wrote:
>>> I've sent a message to upstream's mailing list about this, but it's
>>> currently pending moderator approval.  I imagine we'll need to try to
>>> reach Sam Leffler about relicensing or to replace this code somehow.
>>
>> Have you received an update on this?
> 
> I waited three weeks and my message was never approved, so I subscribed
> to the list and sent it again with follow-up remarks [1].  Then Adrian
> Chadd of QCA and FreeBSD quickly replied [2] with some good news.
> 
> [1]: 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath9k_htc_fw/2014-November/000412.html
> [2]: 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath9k_htc_fw/2014-November/000413.html

The license is now fixed in ah_osdep.h [1][2]!

[1]: https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware/commit/b568900
[2]: http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/ath9k_htc_fw/2014-November/000416.html

>> I'd also be interested in if the person(s) who audited the tarballs
>> containing this as part of a couple RYF certs has any input.
> 
> That would be Joshua Gay, who just replied in this thread and filed one
> of two upstream bug reports about this license.

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