Date: Thu, 9 Sep 2004 15:46:15 +0100
From: Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton <lkcl@lkcl.net>
To: Erik Mouw <erik@harddisk-recovery.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: GPL source code for Smart USB 56 modem (includes ALSA AC97  patch)
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On Thu, Sep 09, 2004 at 03:46:14PM +0200, Erik Mouw wrote:

> > all their code is GPL.  this is very cool.
> 
> Most of their code is not GPL'ed. It does have a COPYING file, but that
> looks like a BSD license to me. The only (implicitly) GPL'ed part is
> the ALSA patch.
 
 well, better than nothing.

> > it is available here:
> > 
> > 	http://www.smlink.com/main/down/slmodem-2.9.9.tar.gz
> > 
> > i trust that someone will download, check it, and if
> > appropriate, incorporate it into the mainstream linux kernel.
> 
> It's not a GPL driver, the kernel part contains a binary object file
> (drivers/amrlibs.o) so I don't see how it can be included in the main
> kernel tree. 

 DRAT.

> OTOH, at first glance only the PCI driver needs that
> binary blob, the USB driver doesn't.

 ah ha!

 i sent them a message, see if they react well to licensing the
 rest as GPL.

 l.

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