From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964774AbWFWMpe (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:45:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932585AbWFWMpe (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:45:34 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:17561 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932565AbWFWMpe (ORCPT ); Fri, 23 Jun 2006 08:45:34 -0400 Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 14:44:17 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: stephen@blacksapphire.com, benm@symmetric.co.nz, kernel list , radek.stangel@gmsil.com Subject: Re: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL Message-ID: <20060623124405.GA8027@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060616094516.GA3432@elf.ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060616094516.GA3432@elf.ucw.cz> 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. Uhuh, I was blind, there's MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") there, so all should be fine. So... there are no legal problems and it is all "simple matter of programming". Now... if someone lent me the PCMCIA/SIM combination for a month, I guess I should be able to get it going in 2.6.16, and I should be able to get it into shape for mainline, too... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html