From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750789AbWFPJp4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:45:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750839AbWFPJp4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:45:56 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:34526 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750789AbWFPJp4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Jun 2006 05:45:56 -0400 Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 11:45:16 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: stephen@blacksapphire.com, benm@symmetric.co.nz, kernel list , radek.stangel@gmsil.com Subject: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL Message-ID: <20060616094516.GA3432@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! I'm trying to get "IPWireless 3G PCMCIA" to work under linux. There are two problems: * first, only available version is for 2.6.12, and fixes to make it compile under 2.6.16 don't seem to be trivial What is worse, /* * IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver * * by Stephen Blackheath , * Ben Martel * * Copyrighted as follows: * Copyright (C) 2004 by Symmetric Systems Ltd (NZ) */ ...so I'm not even allowed to fix it. I believe that driver should be GPLed -- it is unusable without pcmcia packages after all. Can you clarify copyright situation? Does anyone have 2.6.16 version by chance? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html