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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	kaszak@gmail.com, lcostantino@gmail.com
Subject: Re: w35und: add softmac interface
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:56:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080415195603.GE4994@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080415132845.GA11789@tuxdriver.com>

Hi!

> > Actually you are about month early to the party ;-). We are trying to
> > clean up winbond usb wireless driver, so that it can think about
> > inclusion in kernel.
> > 
> > http://code.google.com/p/winbondport/
> > 
> > Unfortunately, original driver carries its own 802.11 stack with it;
> > that needs to be stripped down. (And then code needs to be rewritten
> > due to horrible coding style).
> 
> I see...OK.
> 
> Did you get any legal advice regarding whether or not
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") was sufficient to proclaim the driver as covered
> by the GPL?

I dislike talking to lawyers, do not have any easily physically
reachable, and believe the case is pretty clear...

...plus, we plan to rewrite the driver, anyway...
									Pavel
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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-15 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-14 22:47 Pavel Machek
2008-04-15  0:28 ` John W. Linville
2008-04-15  7:22   ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15  8:10     ` Károly Kasza
2008-04-15  9:14       ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 10:17         ` Károly Kasza
2008-04-15 19:54           ` Pavel Machek
2008-04-15 13:28     ` John W. Linville
2008-04-15 19:56       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2008-04-25 11:12         ` w35und: good news about licensing Pavel Machek

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