From: Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@free.fr>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support?
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2006 21:18:19 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <pan.2006.07.11.19.18.18.366194@free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 1152644119.18028.46.camel@localhost.localdomain
Le Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:55:19 +0100, Alan Cox a écrit :
> Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 21:25 +0300, ysgrifennodd Alon Bar-Lev:
>> And to have a system that you know exactly what running in it...
>> Having a binary closed source violate this.
>
> Also if the binary only chunk of code is neccessary to make the open
> source bit work then its a derivative work as I understand the
> situation, which makes it all rather questionable from a licensing
> perspsective.
>
> Hopefully Intel will find a sensible solution to the problem or someone
> will just reverse engineer it away.
>
Well openbsd guys already reversed engineer it :
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-07-11 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-11 16:32 Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support? Joseph Michael Smidt
2006-07-11 16:47 ` Otavio Salvador
2006-07-11 17:12 ` John W. Linville
2006-07-11 18:09 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-07-11 18:25 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-07-11 18:43 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-07-11 18:55 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-11 19:18 ` Matthieu CASTET [this message]
2006-07-11 20:22 ` Daniel Bonekeeper
2006-07-11 22:22 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-11 23:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12 0:04 ` Matthew Garrett
2006-07-12 0:35 ` James Ketrenos
2006-07-12 1:19 ` David Miller
2006-07-12 11:30 ` Alan Cox
2006-07-12 17:17 ` Alon Bar-Lev
2006-07-12 22:09 ` David Schwartz
2006-07-11 20:16 ` Thorsten Kranzkowski
2006-07-12 0:42 ` Thomas Tuttle
2006-07-12 0:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-07-12 1:10 ` David Miller
2006-07-12 1:15 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2006-07-12 8:19 ` Alistair John Strachan
2006-07-12 8:23 ` Alistair John Strachan
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