Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:00:19 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first |
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On Tue 2010-11-30 11:30:18, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote: > > Hi! > > > >> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this > >> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's > >> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for > >> > > >> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL, > >> > >> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with > >> permissive licensed files. > > > > GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so > > permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL. > > Oh?
Kernel is GPL. Dual BSD/GPL is ok. Just BSD... I don't think so.
/* * Copyright (c) 2008 Atheros Communications Inc. * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. *
...but I need permission to relicense it under GPL, and I'm not sure I have it. Pavel
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