From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: stephen@blacksapphire.com, benm@symmetric.co.nz,
kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
radek.stangel@gmsil.com
Subject: Re: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:44:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060623124405.GA8027@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060616094516.GA3432@elf.ucw.cz>
Hi!
> I'm trying to get "IPWireless 3G PCMCIA" to work under linux. There
> are two problems:
>
> * first, only available version is for 2.6.12, and fixes to make it
> compile under 2.6.16 don't seem to be trivial
>
> What is worse,
>
> /*
> * IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver
> *
> * by Stephen Blackheath <stephen@blacksapphire.com>,
> * Ben Martel <benm@symmetric.co.nz>
> *
> * Copyrighted as follows:
> * Copyright (C) 2004 by Symmetric Systems Ltd (NZ)
> */
>
> ...so I'm not even allowed to fix it. I believe that driver should be
> GPLed -- it is unusable without pcmcia packages after all.
Uhuh, I was blind, there's MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") there, so all should
be fine. So... there are no legal problems and it is all "simple
matter of programming". Now... if someone lent me the PCMCIA/SIM
combination for a month, I guess I should be able to get it going in
2.6.16, and I should be able to get it into shape for mainline, too...
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-23 12:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-16 9:45 IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL Pavel Machek
2006-06-23 12:44 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-06-23 13:20 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-23 13:21 ` Charles Majola
2006-06-23 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-27 8:37 ` Patrick McFarland
2006-06-27 9:05 ` Ben Martel
2006-06-27 9:10 ` Charles Majola
2006-06-27 9:15 ` Pavel Machek
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