From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750740AbWGKTS6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:18:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751141AbWGKTS6 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:18:58 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:9399 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750740AbWGKTS5 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Jul 2006 15:18:57 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Matthieu CASTET Subject: Re: Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support? Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:18:19 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1152635563.4f13f77cjsmidt@byu.edu> <20060711171238.GA26186@tuxdriver.com> <200607111909.22972.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> <44B3ED29.4040801@gmail.com> <1152644119.18028.46.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: cac94-1-81-57-151-96.fbx.proxad.net User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2.91 (As She Crawled Across the Table (Debian GNU/Linux)) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Le Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:55:19 +0100, Alan Cox a écrit : > Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 21:25 +0300, ysgrifennodd Alon Bar-Lev: >> And to have a system that you know exactly what running in it... >> Having a binary closed source violate this. > > Also if the binary only chunk of code is neccessary to make the open > source bit work then its a derivative work as I understand the > situation, which makes it all rather questionable from a licensing > perspsective. > > Hopefully Intel will find a sensible solution to the problem or someone > will just reverse engineer it away. > Well openbsd guys already reversed engineer it : http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650