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SubjectRe: w35und: add softmac interface
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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