From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1763857AbYDOTzs (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:55:48 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932130AbYDOTzc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:55:32 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:49148 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932112AbYDOTzb (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:55:31 -0400 Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 21:56:03 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "John W. Linville" Cc: kernel list , kaszak@gmail.com, lcostantino@gmail.com Subject: Re: w35und: add softmac interface Message-ID: <20080415195603.GE4994@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080414224740.GA31431@elf.ucw.cz> <20080415002826.GC4270@tuxdriver.com> <20080415070923.GA13767@elf.ucw.cz> <20080415132845.GA11789@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080415132845.GA11789@tuxdriver.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html