Re: [PATCH] DFU Driver and firmware for Atheros bluetooth chipset AR3011

Luis R. Rodriguez
2009-11-17T21:59:09Z

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 01:47:13PM -0800, David Sainty wrote:
> Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> >> Also Vikram -- why not just ISC license the files as we do with ath9k ? Then also
> >> use:
> >>
> >> MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
> >>
> >> This would be more consistant with what we do with our other upstream Atheros
> >> modules.
> >>
> >
> > Since this is just a firmware loading driver, I prefer if you just keep
> > it GPL only. It is not worth going into too much details. Especially
> > since it looks inspired (nicely phrased) from bcm203x.c driver.
> >
>
> In the interests of supporting the device from *BSD operating systems
> it'd be nice if it was clear that the firmware itself could be included
> under a BSD licence.

Did you read the license? It allow free redistribution.

Luis