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From: Mateusz Berezecki <mateuszb@gmail.com>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Atheros wi-fi card drivers (?)
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 16:45:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <422C7722.40301@gmail.com> (raw)

Hi list members,

I've been doing some reverse engineering of madwifi HAL (Hardware 
Abstraction Layer) object file recently.
I ended up with an almost complete source code for one chipset so far 
and I was wondering if it is legal
to publish such source code on the internet? The note on a card says it 
is "protected by us patents <patents number list>".
Does the patent apply to the reverse engineered source code, or just to 
the hardware? Or is it even legal to create such source code?
I would like to ask for some comments regarding this case. And let's say 
the driver works, would it be included into kernel source ?



regards
Mateusz Berezecki

             reply	other threads:[~2005-03-07 15:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-07 15:45 Mateusz Berezecki [this message]
2005-03-07 15:55 ` Atheros wi-fi card drivers (?) Raphael Jacquot
2005-03-08 11:25   ` Rene Rebe
2005-03-11 15:52   ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-03-07 17:26 ` Alan Cox
2005-03-08 20:13   ` Lee Revell
2005-03-07 17:36 ` Roland Dreier
2005-03-08  0:41 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-08  6:08   ` Mateusz Berezecki

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