dreemurrs-embedded / linux-pinetab2

PineTab2 mainline kernel sources, with patches
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Can Debian/Mobian copy your code? #1

Closed bordenc closed 7 months ago

bordenc commented 7 months ago

I'm in touch with the Mobian developers about including the bes2600 driver in their distribution. According to the them "[Danctnix] needs to get us a license for that code, and permission to redistribute the firmware (ideal OFC the source code itself)."

From what I can tell, the driver source code is entirely GPL 2, so there shouldn't be an issue with copying and redistributing. I don't understand why Mobian/Debian needs the firmware source code (I don't think anybody else has asked for it), but I understand that's under a proprietary licence. Does that licence allow redistribution?

With thanks,