Re: Licensing wlc_phy_radio.h and brcm80211 (was: [PATCH 3/3] b43: N-PHY: add 2055 radio regs)

[Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>]

On Thu, Oct 14, 2010 at 06:40:14PM +0200, Rafał Miłecki wrote:
> W dniu 11 października 2010 18:24 użytkownik Gábor Stefanik
> <netrolller.3d@gmail.com> napisał:
> > Doesn't brcm80211 contain register names for B2055?
> 
> I've checked brcm80211 and noticed defines in
> drivers/staging/brcm80211/phy/wlc_phy_radio.h.
> 
> Whole brcm80211 driver is licensed as:
> MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
> 
> Mentioned file contains following comments:
> +/*
> + * Copyright (c) 2010 Broadcom Corporation
> + *
> + * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
> + * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
> + * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
> 
> Our b43 driver is licensed as:
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
> and I am not sure if permission above is actually GPL-compatible. The
> best option would be to add defines from wlc_phy_radio.h and include
> Broadcom's copyright. However comment above wants us to include info
> about free copying/modifying/using which is not GPL-compatible.
> 
> Is there any way to solve this issue?

I don't understand, are you just wanting to use the names in the .h file
for the registers?

If so, why?  You don't want to support the same devices in the b43
driver that the brcm80211 driver does, do you?

confused,

greg k-h