From: Andreas Steinmetz <ast@domdv.de>
To: daniel.blueman@gmail.com
Cc: Runar Ingebrigtsen <runar@mopo.no>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Help porting wireless InProComm IPN 2220 driver to 2.6
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 13:16:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43295825.90205@domdv.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6278d22205091503442c3973d4@mail.gmail.com>
Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> The file D-Link has made available contains either this or a
> closed-source driver.
>
This is getting interesting. The tar archive contains a kernel source
tree (looks like 2.4.26). This kernel source tree contains the directory:
linux-2.4.x/drivers/net/wireless/inpro2220
Within this directory there's the file IPN2220 which is a mips object
file, so this is a binary only driver.
Now, even if this is built as a module the module "source" is imported
in the kernel source tree, i.e. it is not separate from the kernel
source. IMHO I do see this then as a GPL violation that goes beyond the
Linus tolerated level.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-15 11:16 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-15 10:44 Help porting wireless InProComm IPN 2220 driver to 2.6 Daniel J Blueman
2005-09-15 11:16 ` Andreas Steinmetz [this message]
2005-09-15 11:23 ` Daniel J Blueman
2005-09-15 11:45 ` Andreas Steinmetz
2005-09-15 12:36 ` Arjan van de Ven
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2005-09-14 22:15 Runar Ingebrigtsen
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