Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:16:53 +0200 | From | Andreas Steinmetz <> | Subject | Re: Help porting wireless InProComm IPN 2220 driver to 2.6 |
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Daniel J Blueman wrote: > The file D-Link has made available contains either this or a > closed-source driver. >
This is getting interesting. The tar archive contains a kernel source tree (looks like 2.4.26). This kernel source tree contains the directory:
linux-2.4.x/drivers/net/wireless/inpro2220
Within this directory there's the file IPN2220 which is a mips object file, so this is a binary only driver.
Now, even if this is built as a module the module "source" is imported in the kernel source tree, i.e. it is not separate from the kernel source. IMHO I do see this then as a GPL violation that goes beyond the Linus tolerated level.
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