Package: firmware-free Version: 3.4 Severity: wishlist Hello,
According to the upstream commit[1] ath9k_htc version 1.4.0 is free software (and the future versions will be free software as well, obviously). Please add it to this package (and remove from firmware-atheros). There's one important thing to consider though: location of the firmware files. If you add the binaries just as they're located in linux-firmware they will be seen and used only by the kernel versions that include [2]. If you copy them to the old place then the older kernels will work with 1.4.0 too (it's backwards-compatible to 1.3.0). Please see [2] for more rationale and details regarding this. The maintainer of the open ath9k_htc firmware is in Cc. [1] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/firmware/linux-firmware.git/commit/?id=3f3aa3a12d5e5d34bda87a691cf7176baef95bf3 [2] https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=e904cf6fe23022cde4e0ea9d41601411a315a3dc
