Re: [DONOTAPPLY RFC PATCH v2 0/4] WiFi support for samsung,coreprimevelte

On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 03:20:28PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote:
> Francesco Dolcini, 2026-04-29T13:22:32+02:00:
> > On Wed, Apr 29, 2026 at 12:55:23PM +0200, Karel Balej wrote:
> >> without the firmware being in linux-firmware?
> >
> > What's the license of this firmware? Am I wrong saying that if
> > the license allows it, you could just send a patch to have it integrated
> > to the linux-firmware repository? Is there any history or documentation
> > on the topic (please apologize if this is a well known topic, just
> > answer RTFM if this is the case).
> 
> that's one of the issues, the license is not specified explicitly
> anywhere as far as I know.
That's enough to be blocked.

> As far as I know, even if I was to submit the firmware myself, it would
> still require a sign-off from someone from NXP [1].

And this is clearly there to avoid situation that are problematic from
a legal point of view.

I do not see any way forward without NXP.

Francesco

> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/about/#signed-off-by-requirement