From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932478AbVHaH5S (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:57:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932483AbVHaH5S (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:57:18 -0400 Received: from mail.enyo.de ([212.9.189.167]:10957 "EHLO mail.enyo.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932478AbVHaH5R (ORCPT ); Wed, 31 Aug 2005 03:57:17 -0400 From: Florian Weimer To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Mateusz Berezecki , Linux Kernel , Andrew Morton , "David S. Miller" Subject: Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver References: <6278d22205081711115b404a9b@mail.gmail.com> <20050818205821.GA30510@localhost.localdomain> <4304F80F.10302@pobox.com> Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2005 09:56:35 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4304F80F.10302@pobox.com> (Jeff Garzik's message of "Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:05:19 -0400") Message-ID: <87ll2ibkuk.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Jeff Garzik: > There is still the open question of whether this is legal enough to > include in the kernel :( Are you referring to FTC issues, or potential copyright/trade secret issues? The FTC issues are shared by many (most?) wireless drivers. The copyright/trade secret issues might be worked around by basing the work on the OpenBSD version of that driver (and someone is actually working on that).