[Bug 1083843] Wrong license for bladeRF-fx3-firmware in hardware:sdr
http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083843 http://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1083843#c3 --- Comment #3 from Stefan Brüns <stefan.bruens@rwth-aachen.de> --- (In reply to Martin Hauke from comment #2)
I'm not a lawyer but I would say it's the MIT license.
https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/tree/master/legal/licenses https://github.com/Nuand/bladeRF/blob/master/debian/copyright
Although the sources created by Nuand (are where they hold the copyright via copyright assignment) are licensed as MIT, this does not apply to the firmware image as a whole. The bladeRF-fx3-firmware package contains the linked firmware binary. Creating the firmware image requires one to download the SDK from Cypress. To download the SDK, one has to acknowledge a license agreement (which is officially only contained in the SDK, i.e. you can read it only after acknowledging it). IANAL either, but after careful reading the the license and posts from Cypress representatives in their forum, a SDK based firmware can be freely redistributable, but is not "free software" in any form. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are on the CC list for the bug.
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