From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net>
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: New driver questions: Attansic L1 gigabit NIC
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:05:01 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060816110501.0d7502a8@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44E25767.6010208@bellsouth.net>
On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:23:19 -0500
Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> > On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:11:42 -0500
> > Jay Cliburn <jacliburn@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> ...snip...
> >> I've read the LKML FAQ regarding new driver submissions, but it implies
> >> that the submitter be willing to maintain the driver, which I'm not
> >> qualified to do. I haven't contacted Attansic to request a change to
> >> the above support statement, because my past attempts to contact vendors
> >> on matters of this tenor have been greeted with silence.
> >
> > I would recommend the module author to see if they would GPL it.
>
> Thank you for your reply. I've contacted the author as you suggest.
>
IANAL but because they used GPL code in the driver, one could argue
that they created a derived work covered by GPL already. But I learned in
preschool it is always better to ask than take.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-16 18:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-08-14 0:11 New driver questions: Attansic L1 gigabit NIC Jay Cliburn
[not found] ` <20060815143457.5fde176b@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net>
2006-08-15 23:23 ` Jay Cliburn
2006-08-16 18:05 ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]
2006-08-16 18:44 ` John Haller
2006-08-16 21:16 ` Stephen Hemminger
2006-08-16 22:54 ` Chris Leech
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