From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758761AbYDYLMI (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:12:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752507AbYDYLL5 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:11:57 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:52496 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751640AbYDYLL4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:11:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:12:37 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "John W. Linville" , cfarrell@suse.de Cc: kernel list , kaszak@gmail.com, lcostantino@gmail.com Subject: Re: w35und: good news about licensing Message-ID: <20080425111237.GA15479@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20080414224740.GA31431@elf.ucw.cz> <20080415002826.GC4270@tuxdriver.com> <20080415070923.GA13767@elf.ucw.cz> <20080415132845.GA11789@tuxdriver.com> <20080415195603.GE4994@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080415195603.GE4994@elf.ucw.cz> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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