LICENSE="GPL-2" is not correct, as despite all the claims that it doesn't, Linux contains proprietary software. See below for a non-exhaustive listing of proprietary software that I have found thus far: drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ffdrv.h drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ltdrv.h: * The firmware this driver downloads into the Localtalk card is a * separate program and is not GPL'd source code, even though the Linux * side driver and the routine that loads this data into the card are. * * It is taken from the COPS SDK and is under the following license * * This material is licensed to you strictly for use in conjunction with * the use of COPS LocalTalk adapters. * There is no charge for this SDK. And no waranty express or implied * about its fitness for any purpose. However, we will cheerefully * refund every penny you paid for this SDK... * Regards, * * Thomas F. Divine * Chief Scientist arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/micropatch.c: * Microcode patches for the CPM as supplied by Motorola. * This is the one for IIC/SPI. There is a newer one that * also relocates SMC2, but this would require additional changes * to uart.c, so I am holding off on that for a moment. Although the identifier notes GPLv2-only, I can't find any corresponding source code, nor a written offer for such, so that's not the license. I've also seen certain tables in the below that look like they could contain software, with no source code available, but there is the possibility that such is all pure data and/or magic register values: drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/r8169_main.c drivers/net/usb/r8152.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_core.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8192c.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8192e.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8723a.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtl8xxxu/rtl8xxxu_8723b.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8821c.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8822b.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw88/rtw8723d.c drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtw89/rtw8852a.c drivers/net/phy/mscc/mscc_main.c I've checked that the above applies to gentoo-sources-6.1.1, git-sources-6.2_rc1, zen-sources-6.0.12, but it probably applies to most, if not all versions of Linux in tree. In case anyone wants to claim that drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ffdrv.h, drivers/net/appletalk/cops_ltdrv.h and arch/powerpc/platforms/8xx/micropatch.c aren't software: ./cpu_rec.py ffdrv_code ltdrv_code patch_2*: ffdrv_code full(0x175f) None chunk(0x400;2) Z80 ltdrv_code full(0x9c5) Z80 chunk(0x400;4) Z80 patch_2000 full(0x1d0) 6502 chunk(0xc0;3) 6502 patch_2000_2 full(0x500) 6502 chunk(0x300;3) 6502 patch_2000_3 - invalid about as too few bytes patch_2000_4 full(0x348) None chunk(0x1c0;7) 6502 patch_2e00 full(0x40) 6502 chunk(0x40;1) 6502 patch_2f00 full(0x74) 6502 chunk(0x40;1) 6502 patch_2f00_2 full(0x100) 6502 chunk(0x100;4) 6502 patch_2f00_3 - invalid about as too few bytes patch_2f00_4 full(0xd4) 6502 chunk(0xc0;3) 6502 You would think the Communications Processor Module wouldn't contain a 6502 (as Motorola), but it looks like it does. Therefore, it should be: LICENSE="GPL-2 no-source-code COPS" (the COPS SDK "license" needs to be added).
I'll CC licenses@ as there's some history here wrt the appletalk stuff at least, IIRC.
This should be reported upstream and fixed there. Presumably, the appletalk firmware should be moved to the linux-firmware package. Please continue discussion in bug 693288. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 693288 ***
