Re: [PATCH] morsemicro: add firmware for mm8108 support

On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 12:47=E2=80=AFAM Lachlan Hodges
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Add firmware and board files for the mm8108 chipset to be used
> with the mm81x Wi-Fi driver.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lachlan Hodges <[email protected]>
> ---
>  LICENSES/LICENCE.morsemicro                 | 125 ++++++++++++++++++++

This is problematic and we can't accept this firmware under this
license.  Please see LICENSE-CRITERIA.md in the repo.  More comments
below.

josh

>  WHENCE                                      |  14 +++
>  morsemicro/mm81x/v56/bcf_aw_hm677.bin       | Bin 0 -> 2124 bytes
>  morsemicro/mm81x/v56/bcf_mm8108_mf15457.bin | Bin 0 -> 2124 bytes
>  morsemicro/mm81x/v56/mm8108.bin             | Bin 0 -> 479624 bytes
>  5 files changed, 139 insertions(+)
>  create mode 100644 LICENSES/LICENCE.morsemicro
>  create mode 100644 morsemicro/mm81x/v56/bcf_aw_hm677.bin
>  create mode 100644 morsemicro/mm81x/v56/bcf_mm8108_mf15457.bin
>  create mode 100644 morsemicro/mm81x/v56/mm8108.bin
>
> diff --git a/LICENSES/LICENCE.morsemicro b/LICENSES/LICENCE.morsemicro
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..adf90750d1af
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/LICENSES/LICENCE.morsemicro
> @@ -0,0 +1,125 @@
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=80=9D, =E2=80=9Ccustomer=E2=80=9D), and is effective as
> +of the date of first access or download of the software by you. Morse Mi=
cro is
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on with
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A random user downloading the firmware from the linux-firmware
repository will not have received it from Morse Micro directly, nor is
the linux-firmware repo an authorized licensee.

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The distribution restriction here prohibits normal distribution of the
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of the hardware the OS is being installed on.  It also prohibits
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This is effectively either unenforceable after including it in the
linux-firmware repo, or prohibitive enough that we can't include it at
all.

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