bes2600 driver

[u974615]

Hopefully, this was just an oversite and should have been changed when published to GitLab TuxThePenguin0/bes2600 repo:
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[459below]

@u974615

Thanks for pointing this out. I found the license you mentioned in these two files.

https://gitlab.com/TuxThePenguin0/bes260...pt.h#L2-16
https://gitlab.com/TuxThePenguin0/bes260...pt.c#L1-15

[explit]

Hello guys! Since we have a new bes2600 driver and also new kernel 6.6.13 and 6.8.0 (danctnix-testing) i aske me, what need to be done to get a stable, permanent MAC Address?

I have a whitelist in my router, and i want to have only 1 MAC address for my PineTab2.

it would be very helpful for the community.

[diederik]

So you have contacts to someone at BES working on the driver? Could you please talk to them about the licensing on the txrx_opt.c and txrx_opt.h files? The license header states a proprietary, GPL-incompatible license, so it ought to be fixed.

On the licensing topic, this needs to discuss with BES management team.

Any progress on this?

[diederik]

In addition to the license situation wrt the driver, it's also unclear if or under what conditions the firmware can be distributed.

https://gitlab.com/pine64-org/bes2600-firmware does contain the firmware files, but no license/redistribution statement.
Ideally the firmware would be submitted to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ker...rmware.git (f.e. via a MR on https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/), but that should also contain a license/redistribution statement (added to WHENCE).

Otherwise it can't be distributed at least with Debian.

[tllim]

In addition to the license situation wrt the driver, it's also unclear if or under what conditions the firmware can be distributed.

https://gitlab.com/pine64-org/bes2600-firmware does contain the firmware files, but no license/redistribution statement.
Ideally the firmware would be submitted to https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/ker...rmware.git (f.e. via a MR on https://gitlab.com/kernel-firmware/linux-firmware/), but that should also contain a license/redistribution statement (added to WHENCE).

Otherwise it can't be distributed at least with Debian.

Under Apache 2 license per BES comments

[scigrub]

Hi, is there a repository of documentation for the BES2600 in the community? I reached out to Bestechnic but have not heard back.

[459below]

I am happy to see that there is another recent push into getting the WiFi driver out of the license limbo.

https://github.com/dreemurrs-embedded/li...2/issues/3
https://salsa.debian.org/Mobian-team/dev...s2600-dkms
https://gitlab.com/pine64-org/bes2600-fi...-/issues/1