From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Stephen Hemminger Subject: Re: New driver questions: Attansic L1 gigabit NIC Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 11:05:01 -0700 Message-ID: <20060816110501.0d7502a8@localhost.localdomain> References: <44DFBFBE.1070201@bellsouth.net> <20060815143457.5fde176b@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> <44E25767.6010208@bellsouth.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org Return-path: Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:20126 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751237AbWHPSFF (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Aug 2006 14:05:05 -0400 To: Jay Cliburn In-Reply-To: <44E25767.6010208@bellsouth.net> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Tue, 15 Aug 2006 18:23:19 -0500 Jay Cliburn wrote: > Stephen Hemminger wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Aug 2006 19:11:42 -0500 > > Jay Cliburn wrote: > ...snip... > >> I've read the LKML FAQ regarding new driver submissions, but it implies > >> that the submitter be willing to maintain the driver, which I'm not > >> qualified to do. I haven't contacted Attansic to request a change to > >> the above support statement, because my past attempts to contact vendors > >> on matters of this tenor have been greeted with silence. > > > > I would recommend the module author to see if they would GPL it. > > Thank you for your reply. I've contacted the author as you suggest. > IANAL but because they used GPL code in the driver, one could argue that they created a derived work covered by GPL already. But I learned in preschool it is always better to ask than take.