ar9300_devid.h license restricts modification

Xin Li delphij at delphij.net
Tue Nov 4 05:19:20 UTC 2014


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Adding Adrian Chadd (who imported the file into FreeBSD) and Sam
Leffler to Cc.

On 11/3/14 8:09 PM, Riley Baird wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> The license of two files in the ath_hal driver appears to restrict 
> modification. The two files are: 
> /sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9003/ar9300_devid.h 
> /sys/contrib/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9300/ar9300_devid.h
> 
[...]
> 
> There is a discussion about this going on at Debian: 
> https://bugs.debian.org/767583

A quick glance of the two files suggests that they are not
(disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is purely layman opinion)
copyrightable because they are purely constant definitions, which are
non-copyrightable _facts_ after all.

However, it would be nice if we can confirm with Qualcomm.

Cheers,
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