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From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL source code for Smart USB 56 modem (includes ALSA AC97  patch)
Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:46:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040909144615.GA7292@lkcl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040909134614.GB27983@harddisk-recovery.com>

On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:46:14PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:

> > all their code is GPL.  this is very cool.
> 
> Most of their code is not GPL'ed. It does have a COPYING file, but that
> looks like a BSD license to me. The only (implicitly) GPL'ed part is
> the ALSA patch.
 
 well, better than nothing.

> > it is available here:
> > 
> > 	http://www.smlink.com/main/down/slmodem-2.9.9.tar.gz
> > 
> > i trust that someone will download, check it, and if
> > appropriate, incorporate it into the mainstream linux kernel.
> 
> It's not a GPL driver, the kernel part contains a binary object file
> (drivers/amrlibs.o) so I don't see how it can be included in the main
> kernel tree. 

 DRAT.

> OTOH, at first glance only the PCI driver needs that
> binary blob, the USB driver doesn't.

 ah ha!

 i sent them a message, see if they react well to licensing the
 rest as GPL.

 l.


  reply	other threads:[~2004-09-09 14:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-09-09 11:47 GPL source code for Smart USB 56 modem (includes ALSA AC97 patch) Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
2004-09-09 13:25 ` Ian Campbell
2004-09-09 13:46 ` Erik Mouw
2004-09-09 14:46   ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton [this message]
2004-09-09 13:59 ` Theodore Ts'o
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-09-09 14:04 tvrtko.ursulin
2004-09-09 15:47 ` Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton
     [not found] <2CvrA-Fv-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2CAhw-4dR-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-10 16:51   ` SashaK
2004-09-11 10:26 Mikael Pettersson
2004-09-11 13:48 ` SashaK
     [not found] <2DdiX-6ye-17@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <2Dfup-7Zv-9@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-09-11 14:09   ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-11 20:07     ` SashaK
2004-09-12  8:30       ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-12 13:11         ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-11 18:50 Mikael Pettersson
2004-09-11 22:11 ` SashaK
2004-09-13 20:26   ` David Lloyd
2004-09-14 13:19     ` Mario R. Carro
2004-09-14 14:59     ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-14 21:04       ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-15  0:58         ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-17 10:22           ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-18 11:29             ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-18 14:35               ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-18 20:20                 ` Sasha Khapyorsky
2004-09-20 20:23                   ` Giuseppe Bilotta
2004-09-21 16:55   ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-21 20:09     ` David Lloyd
2004-09-22  8:19       ` David Woodhouse
2004-09-22 19:07         ` David Lloyd
2004-09-22  1:08     ` Sasha Khapyorsky

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