Re: AR5523 driver - old Atheros USB

["John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>]

On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:15:15PM +0000, Kamil Dzida wrote:
> John W. Linville <linville@...> writes:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:00:28AM +0000, Kamil Dzida wrote:
> > 
> > > It seems that OpenBSD has driver for AR5523 (AR5005UG and AR5005UX) upstream.
> > > I doubt that they would like to share their code with Linux - 
> like dual licensing
> > > GPL/BSD.
> > 
> > At the risk of starting another flame war with insane people, I'll
> > point-out that dual licensing is not necessary.  The BSD licensed
> > code is completely available to us.
> > 
> > John
> 
> 
> I am not here to start a flame war of any sort,
> yet if it sounded like that then I am terribly sorry. 
> I came here to aid with a link to man page which includes a good list of
> AR5005UG and AR5005UX based hardware which could be useful for the
> developers.
> 
> Anyway thank you for the clarification.

Whether or not you are insane remains to be seen. :-)  Nevertheless,
you were _not_ the "insane people" I was alluding to above...

John
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