From patchwork Fri Apr 22 22:00:38 2011 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Patchwork-Submitter: Luis Rodriguez X-Patchwork-Id: 728491 Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by demeter1.kernel.org (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p3MM0vVN026118 for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:00:57 GMT Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932076Ab1DVWAz (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:00:55 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([12.19.149.2]:35064 "EHLO mail.atheros.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753609Ab1DVWAn (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 18:00:43 -0400 Received: from mail.atheros.com ([10.10.20.108]) by sidewinder.atheros.com for ; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:00:17 -0700 Received: from tux (10.10.11.43) by SC1EXHC-02.global.atheros.com (10.234.20.111) with Microsoft SMTP Server (TLS) id 8.2.213.0; Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:00:42 -0700 Received: by tux (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:00:42 -0700 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: CC: , , , , , , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , , Len Widra , Brian Lee , Adam Tachner , Paul Lever , Vipin Mehta Subject: [PATCH 1/2] linux-firmware: update Atheros firmware license Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2011 15:00:38 -0700 Message-ID: <1303509639-32448-2-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.4.15.g7811d In-Reply-To: <1303509639-32448-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> References: <1303509639-32448-1-git-send-email-lrodriguez@atheros.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org X-Greylist: IP, sender and recipient auto-whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.2.6 (demeter1.kernel.org [140.211.167.41]); Fri, 22 Apr 2011 22:00:57 +0000 (UTC) This makes the license Operating System agnostic and updates the patent license grant for use of the firmware license specifically on the Atheros chipsets. This allows us to share the same license between all Atheros chipsets, ath9k, ath9k_htc, ath6kl, and future chipsets. Cc: ath9k-devel@atheros.com Cc: Len Widra Cc: Brian Lee Cc: Adam Tachner Cc: Paul Lever Cc: Vipin Mehta Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez --- LICENCE.atheros_firmware | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/LICENCE.atheros_firmware b/LICENCE.atheros_firmware index d336492..e0ebdac 100644 --- a/LICENCE.atheros_firmware +++ b/LICENCE.atheros_firmware @@ -21,9 +21,7 @@ world-wide, royalty-free, non-exclusive license under patents it now or hereafter owns or controls to make, have made, use, import, offer to sell and sell ("Utilize") this software, but solely to the extent that any such patent is necessary to Utilize the software -alone, or in combination with an operating system licensed under an -approved Open Source license as listed by the Open Source Initiative -at http://opensource.org/licenses. The patent license shall not +in conjunction with an Atheros Chipset. The patent license shall not apply to any other combinations which include this software. No hardware per se is licensed hereunder.