From: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
To: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL source code for Smart USB 56 modem (includes ALSA AC97 patch)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:46:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909134614.GB27983@harddisk-recovery.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040909114747.GC30162@lkcl.net>
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 12:47:47PM +0100, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> i was staggered to find that swansmart (smlink.com) have a GPL
> driver for their smart usb 56k modem.
>
> they also do a pci version: their download supports both (usb+pci)
>
> they also provide an AC97 ALSA driver (patch is against 2.6.0)
>
> this PCI ALSA driver is based on the i8x0 / MX 440 modem driver,
> by Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>.
>
> all their code is GPL. this is very cool.
Most of their code is not GPL'ed. It does have a COPYING file, but that
looks like a BSD license to me. The only (implicitly) GPL'ed part is
the ALSA patch.
> it is available here:
>
> http://www.smlink.com/main/down/slmodem-2.9.9.tar.gz
>
> i trust that someone will download, check it, and if
> appropriate, incorporate it into the mainstream linux kernel.
It's not a GPL driver, the kernel part contains a binary object file
(drivers/amrlibs.o) so I don't see how it can be included in the main
kernel tree. OTOH, at first glance only the PCI driver needs that
binary blob, the USB driver doesn't.
Erik
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 13:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 11:47 Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 13:25 ` Ian Campbell
2004-09-09 13:46 ` Erik Mouw [this message]
2004-09-09 14:46 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 13:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
2004-09-09 14:04 tvrtko.ursulin
2004-09-09 15:47 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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[not found] ` <2CAhw-4dR-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-10 16:51 ` SashaK
2004-09-11 10:26 Mikael Pettersson
2004-09-11 13:48 ` SashaK
[not found] <2DdiX-6ye-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
[not found] ` <2Dfup-7Zv-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-11 14:09 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-11 20:07 ` SashaK
2004-09-12 8:30 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-12 13:11 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-11 18:50 Mikael Pettersson
2004-09-11 22:11 ` SashaK
2004-09-13 20:26 ` David Lloyd
2004-09-14 13:19 ` Mario R. Carro
2004-09-14 14:59 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-14 21:04 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-15 0:58 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-17 10:22 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-18 11:29 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-18 14:35 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-18 20:20 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-20 20:23 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-21 16:55 ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-21 20:09 ` David Lloyd
2004-09-22 8:19 ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-22 19:07 ` David Lloyd
2004-09-22 1:08 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
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