A point against storing firmware binaries in OpenWRT git (ipq-wifi)

[Christian Lamparter]

Hi,

On Sun, Jul 10, 2022 at 7:30 PM Alex G. <mr.nuke.me at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> It really bothers me that the ipq-wifi firmware is stored in git as
> binary files.

Sorry, this sounds like a recent topic: "Moving ipq-wifi to a dedicated repo"
<http://lists.openwrt.org/pipermail/openwrt-devel/2022-June/038969.html>

what wasn't really discussed in that topic though: "Who exactly owns
these blobs?"
Technically, storing them anywhere else is a grey area... But once they hit the
linux-firmware.git repository it becomes a different story. Mostly because
this is done by Qualcomm which adds these to their libraries there under
their license.

Cheers,
Christian