Am 28.11.2016 um 17:34 schrieb Kyle McMartin:

On Tue, Nov 22, 2016 at 9:44 AM, IgorMitsyanko
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

Hi Ben, Kyle,
could you please share what is the position of linux-firmware regarding
firmware binaries that include GPL components? Does it require entire GPL
components codebase be present in linux-firmware tree, or maybe having this
clause in license file is enough:
+Open Source Software. The Software may include components that are licensed
+pursuant to open source software (“Open Source Components”). Information
+regarding the Open Source Components included with the Software is
available
+upon request to oslegal@quantenna.com. To the extent such Open Source
+Components are required to be licensed to you under the terms of a separate
+license (such as an open source license) then such other terms shall apply,
and
+nothing herein shall be deemed or interpreted to limit any rights you may
have
+under any such applicable license.

From technical perspective, size of the codebase used to build Quantenna
firmware is a few hundred MBs, it seems too much to include into
linux-firmware tree.

I don't have strong feelings one way or another. I'd prefer not having
several hundred
MB of source that's unlikely to change included in the linux-firmware
git tree. I'm also not
a lawyer, so I can't help you decide what would satisfy the
distribution clause of the GPLv2.
We already have one GPL firmware (carl9170fw) which includes the
source, but just references
a seperate toolchain for downloading, so it's only approximately 1MB
in size in the tree.

Is your firmware source really that large, or is it just including the
entire build toolchain with it?

regards,
--Kyle

We also have open BSD licensed open-ath9k-htc-firmware. Which is locate
out of source too.
https://github.com/qca/open-ath9k-htc-firmware
and here is location of carl firmware:
https://github.com/chunkeey/carl9170fw

So, what is actual problem with Quantenna QSR10G FW?
I would be really interesting to take a look on it. Is it somewhere
available? Are there some devices to get hand on?

-- 
Regards,
Oleksij