From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL source code for Smart USB 56 modem (includes ALSA AC97 patch)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:46:15 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909144615.GA7292@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040909134614.GB27983@harddisk-recovery.com>
On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:46:14PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:
> > all their code is GPL. this is very cool.
>
> Most of their code is not GPL'ed. It does have a COPYING file, but that
> looks like a BSD license to me. The only (implicitly) GPL'ed part is
> the ALSA patch.
well, better than nothing.
> > it is available here:
> >
> > http://www.smlink.com/main/down/slmodem-2.9.9.tar.gz
> >
> > i trust that someone will download, check it, and if
> > appropriate, incorporate it into the mainstream linux kernel.
>
> It's not a GPL driver, the kernel part contains a binary object file
> (drivers/amrlibs.o) so I don't see how it can be included in the main
> kernel tree.
DRAT.
> OTOH, at first glance only the PCI driver needs that
> binary blob, the USB driver doesn't.
ah ha!
i sent them a message, see if they react well to licensing the
rest as GPL.
l.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-09 14:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-09-09 11:47 GPL source code for Smart USB 56 modem (includes ALSA AC97 patch) Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 13:25 ` Ian Campbell
2004-09-09 13:46 ` Erik Mouw
2004-09-09 14:46 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-09-09 13:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
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2004-09-09 14:04 tvrtko.ursulin
2004-09-09 15:47 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
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[not found] ` <2CAhw-4dR-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-10 16:51 ` SashaK
2004-09-11 10:26 Mikael Pettersson
2004-09-11 13:48 ` SashaK
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[not found] ` <2Dfup-7Zv-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-11 14:09 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-11 20:07 ` SashaK
2004-09-12 8:30 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-12 13:11 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-11 18:50 Mikael Pettersson
2004-09-11 22:11 ` SashaK
2004-09-13 20:26 ` David Lloyd
2004-09-14 13:19 ` Mario R. Carro
2004-09-14 14:59 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-14 21:04 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-15 0:58 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-17 10:22 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-18 11:29 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-18 14:35 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-18 20:20 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-20 20:23 ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-21 16:55 ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-21 20:09 ` David Lloyd
2004-09-22 8:19 ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-22 19:07 ` David Lloyd
2004-09-22 1:08 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
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