Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:12:37 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: w35und: good news about licensing |
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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...
Ok, so I did actually talk to a lawyer that happened to be nearby. We did short analysis, and we believe that yes, w35und is under GPL. The only problem is in wpa/ subdirectory where md5 (IIRC) is under RSA license.
wpa/ subdirectory is already empty in my version, so we should be ok.
Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
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