From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: David Woodhouse Date: Wed, 22 Sep 2010 12:14:38 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] b43/b43legacy - Credit Broadcom with enabling the development of the drivers In-Reply-To: <1285131914.14456.17.camel@maggie> References: <1284921651.24835.11.camel@i7.infradead.org> <4C97AFCE.3040806@wetwork.net> <4C97D0B2.9080704@wetwork.net> <4C97D76F.1040601@wetwork.net> <20100921040122.17974.qmail@stuge.se> (sfid-20100921_183849_107489_3B5237EC) <1285131914.14456.17.camel@maggie> Message-ID: <1285154078.4498.78.camel@i7.infradead.org> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: b43-dev@lists.infradead.org On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 07:05 +0200, Michael B?sch wrote: > > + Broadcom enabled the development of this driver, by providing all required > + hardware information in the form of binary software drivers. > > Let me rephrase the comment a little bit. I will not change the > meaning :) > > + Certain lawyers are wrong, and this driver proves it. > + http://tinyurl.com/ybl83uw > > That's basically all it says. No more, no less. Fairly close :) But it's a little more than that. It's more like: + I know you're scared that the world will end if you 'enable' this + driver in any way... but *look* -- you've actually been 'enabling' + if from the very beginning, and you haven't been eaten by a grue + yet. So please get over your stupid paranoia, and work with us + sensibly for once. Which would include: + - letting us have permission to distribute the firmware. + - giving us the odd hint about how to fix/improve the driver. + - merging your new driver with the existing one, if appropriate. + - etc. It does us no harm to make it explicitly clear that the driver development was 'enabled' by what Broadcom published. And if it has *any* chance of showing the paranoid factions in Broadcom that their fears are baseless, it has the potential to be helpful. -- dwmw2