From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VT6656 driver source available from VIA
Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:12:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071101191250.GE14943@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071101190711.GB17825@storm.local.network>
On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:07:11PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:59:00PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:37:43PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> > > A few months ago, VIA quietly released the source for their VT6656 USB WiFi
> > > chip. The original VIA archive can be downloaded here:
> > Any luck getting license clarification from VIA?
> I did send a few e-mails (one to the driver developer, and one to a personal
> contact at VIA), but neither has yielded anything useful. I think the only
> remaining effective option is to bring it up on viaarena.com. Consumer angst
> runs thick in those parts, and VIA has occasionally been known to respond
> semi-positively. In this case, that just might be enough, since their
> intentions were clearly to open-source the driver, despite their apparent
> inability to document this properly.
>
> Does that seem like a good path to you?
Thas sounds great to me. I look forward to hearing the results!
Thanks,
John
--
John W. Linville
linville@tuxdriver.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-01 19:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-19 19:37 VT6656 driver source available from VIA Forest Bond
2007-09-19 20:52 ` Forest Bond
2007-09-20 14:04 ` Johannes Berg
2007-09-20 14:10 ` Forest Bond
2007-09-20 14:15 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-11-01 18:59 ` John W. Linville
2007-11-01 19:07 ` Forest Bond
2007-11-01 19:12 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2007-11-01 20:21 ` Forest Bond
2007-11-05 2:07 ` Forest Bond
2007-11-14 17:00 ` Forest Bond
2007-11-14 17:06 ` John W. Linville
2008-01-07 18:49 ` Forest Bond
2008-01-07 20:20 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-07 20:31 ` Forest Bond
2008-01-07 20:47 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-07 20:54 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-07 21:06 ` Forest Bond
2008-01-07 21:38 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2008-01-07 20:54 ` Dan Williams
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