[Fedora-legal-list] Linux firmware

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 26, 2009, "Tom \"spot\" Callaway" <tcallawa at redhat.com> wrote:

> If we find these non-redistributable firmware bits anywhere, we'd remove
> them.

What if one piece of firmware is licensed under:

 * This file contains firmware data derived from proprietary unpublished
 * source code, [...]
 *
 * Permission is hereby granted for the distribution of this firmware data
 * in hexadecimal or equivalent format, provided this copyright notice is
 * accompanying it.

and another piece of code, copyrighted by the same party, says:

 * [...] this software is licensed to you
 * under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 [...]
 *
 * Notwithstanding the above, under no circumstances may you combine this
 * software in any way with any other $PARTY software provided under a
 * license other than the GPL, without $PARTY's express prior written
 * consent.

Which of the two should be taken out so that the other can be
redistributable?  Perhaps the latter, given that it's a driver under a
license that's not even compatible with GPLv2?

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