Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 15:07:11 -0400
From: Forest Bond <forest@alittletooquiet.net>
To: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: VT6656 driver source available from VIA
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Hi John,

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:59:00PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:37:43PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> > Hi,
> >=20
> > A few months ago, VIA quietly released the source for their VT6656 USB =
WiFi
> > chip.  The original VIA archive can be downloaded here:
> >=20
> > http://www.viaarena.com/Driver/vt6656-linux-x86-src-v113.rar
>=20
> Forest,
>=20
> Any luck getting license clarification from VIA?

Sorry for the silence.

I think I might have mentioned before that the company I work for has an
established relationship with VIA which in most circumstances can be helpfu=
l for
handling situations like this one.  Unfortunately, I've not been able to br=
ing
it up as a business-related item due to some unfortunate circumstances that=
 I'm
not permitted to elaborate upon here.

I did send a few e-mails (one to the driver developer, and one to a personal
contact at VIA), but neither has yielded anything useful.  I think the only
remaining effective option is to bring it up on viaarena.com.  Consumer ang=
st
runs thick in those parts, and VIA has occasionally been known to respond
semi-positively.  In this case, that just might be enough, since their
intentions were clearly to open-source the driver, despite their apparent
inability to document this properly.

Does that seem like a good path to you?

Thanks,
Forest
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Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net

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