[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Firmware signing

[Greg KH]

On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 11:54:28AM -0700, josh at joshtriplett.org wrote:
> > So in that case, what's the advantage of separating the firmware from
> > the driver?  If we can't update it without updating the driver, we could
> > just build it in and save a huge amount of hassle.
> 
> Licensing, which is a large part of why we have request_firmware to
> begin with.  Let's not make distribution kernel maintainers' lives more
> difficult than they already are.

Not true at all, please talk with some lawyers about this.

Or, to be clear, the lawyers I have discussed this with have no issues
at all with it.  Yours might differ.  Insert joke about 2 lawyers and 3
opinions and all that...

thanks,

greg k-h