Copyright for drivers- two SCSI HBA drivers

[Matthew Jacob]

> As a user of hardware which requires firmware like this, I have mixed
> feelings, but feel strongly that requirements of the GPL clearly
> override any measure of convenience. Are there any plans to remove the
> binary-only firmware from the kernel, and/or eventually from the Linux
> source distribution? I am not refering to this USB driver
> specifically, but rather the general occurance of firmware embedded in
> Linux device trivers.
> 

In the specific instances that I know about, the f/w for the older Qlogic SCSI
cards (the drivers *not* supplied by vendors) for qlogicisp (qlogicisp_asm.c)
and qlogicpti (qlogicisp_pti.c) is in the Linux source *and has been for
years) with no copyright attribution whatsoever. qlogicfc has the BSD style
copyright that I partly, but mostly Theo Deraadt of OpenBSD, managed to beat
QLogic into doing.

Versions of f/w for qlogicisp && qlogicpti can easily also be had with the BSD
licence- check any *BSD distribution, or pick 'em up via bitkeeper from my
site.

-matt