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Date: Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:47:13 +1300
From: David Sainty <david.sainty@dtsp.co.nz>
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To: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
CC: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] DFU Driver and firmware for Atheros bluetooth chipset
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Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>> Also Vikram -- why not just ISC license the files as we do with ath9k ? Then also
>> use:
>>
>> MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");
>>
>> This would be more consistant with what we do with our other upstream Atheros
>> modules.
>>     
>
> Since this is just a firmware loading driver, I prefer if you just keep
> it GPL only. It is not worth going into too much details. Especially
> since it looks inspired (nicely phrased) from bcm203x.c driver.
>   

In the interests of supporting the device from *BSD operating systems 
it'd be nice if it was clear that the firmware itself could be included 
under a BSD licence.