From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:06:35 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:06:35 -0500 Received: from palrel12.hp.com ([156.153.255.237]:57004 "EHLO palrel12.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 18:06:34 -0500 Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 15:17:09 -0800 To: Linux kernel mailing list , Alan Cox Subject: Re: acx100_pci.o GPL but only binary version Message-ID: <20030307231709.GA10152@bougret.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: jt@hpl.hp.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: jt@hpl.hp.com From: Jean Tourrilhes Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Alan Cox wrote : > > On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 20:17, alx wrote: > > acx100_pci.o wanna be a linux driver from the TI acx100 chipset. > > but it doesn't work at all! > > - First ifconfig SegFault > > - Second hangs the machine > > Its a known one. No source, the GPL license appears to be a fiction > designed to violate the Linux copyright. I guess someone needs a DMCA > takedown order in the post Actually, the problem is that TI (which we believe is the author of the driver) doesn't itself distribute this driver, but it seems that it has misteriously "leaked" on the net and it's just basic Linux users that are putting it on their web page. If you look at the Linux-Wlan mailing list archive, you will see that this driver also contain code from the linux-wlan-ng driver, and I don't know yet if they cut'n'paste code from the GPL version or just bought the development kit from Linux-Wlan. Anyway, as this driver doesn't seem to work (check the various mailing list), I don't think there is any point making a big fuss and we should politely ask TI (or whoever wrote the driver) to come clear on this one. Have fun... Jean P.S. : And in the Howto, TI is still marked as "unsupported".