linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] README: clarify redistribution requirements covering patents

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Message-ID: <20140630175351.GL27687@wotan.suse.de>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jun 2014 19:53:51 +0200
From:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...e.com>
To:	One Thousand Gnomes <gnomes@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc:	"Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@...not-panic.com>,
	linux-firmware@...nel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] README: clarify redistribution requirements covering
	patents

On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 04:31:08PM +0100, One Thousand Gnomes wrote:
> > +the firmware license provided includes an implicit or explicit
> > +patent grant to end users to ensure full functionality of device
> > +operation with the firmware. If the licence is long and involved, it's
> >  permitted to include it in a separate file and refer to it from the
> >  WHENCE file.
> >  And if it were possible, a changelog of the firmware itself.
> 
> "end users of the device" or just "end users"
> 
> I'm assuming the worry for most vendors is licensing it to be used on
> some third party product ?

The proposed language includes both whereas the "end users of the device"
would exclude some subset use including the implicit license use case.
Thoughts?

  Luis
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