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@@ -1,43 +0,0 @@ - - Linux firmware - ============== - - <http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git> - - git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git - -This repository contains all these firmware images which have been -extracted from older drivers, as well various new firmware images which -we were never permitted to include in a GPL'd work, but which we _have_ -been permitted to redistribute under separate cover. - -To submit firmware to this repository, please send either a git binary -diff or preferably a git pull request to: - linux-firmware@kernel.org -and also cc: to related mailing lists. - -If your commit adds new firmware, it must update the WHENCE file to -clearly state the license under which the firmware is available, and -that it is redistributable. Being redistributable includes ensuring -the firmware license provided includes an implicit or explicit -patent grant to end users to ensure full functionality of device -operation with the firmware. If the license is long and involved, it's -permitted to include it in a separate file and refer to it from the -WHENCE file ('See LICENSE.foo for details.'). -And if it were possible, a changelog of the firmware itself. - -Run 'make check' to check that WHENCE is consistent with the -repository contents. - -Ideally, your commit should contain a Signed-Off-By: from someone -authoritative on the licensing of the firmware in question (i.e. from -within the company that owns the code). - - -WARNING: -======= - -Don't send any "CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT" in your e-mail, patch or -request. Otherwise your firmware _will never be accepted_. - -Maintainers are really busy, so don't expect a prompt reply. |