Date: Thu, 1 Nov 2007 16:21:00 -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
Message-ID: <20071101202100.GA1160@storm.local.network> (sfid-20071101_202145_388644_75E70D47)
References: <20070919193743.GA14127@storm.local.network> <20071101185900.GD14943@tuxdriver.com> <20071101190711.GB17825@storm.local.network> <20071101191250.GE14943@tuxdriver.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1;
	protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="wac7ysb48OaltWcw"
In-Reply-To: <20071101191250.GE14943@tuxdriver.com>
Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org


--wac7ysb48OaltWcw
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Disposition: inline
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

Hi,

On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:12:50PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:07:11PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote:
> > 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:
>=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
> > > Any luck getting license clarification from VIA?
>=20
> > I did send a few e-mails (one to the driver developer, and one to a per=
sonal
> > 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=
 angst
> > runs thick in those parts, and VIA has occasionally been known to respo=
nd
> > semi-positively.  In this case, that just might be enough, since their
> > intentions were clearly to open-source the driver, despite their appare=
nt
> > inability to document this properly.
> >=20
> > Does that seem like a good path to you?
>=20
> Thas sounds great to me.  I look forward to hearing the results!

Right, of course you do :)

I'll write an initial post to viaarena.com tonight.  It might be helpful if=
 a
few folks from this list drop by and contribute some noise.  This isn't rea=
lly
one of VIA's biggest products, and I don't know what the affected user base
really looks like.  I'd hate to come up short on allies.

I'll report back shortly.

-Forest
--=20
Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net

--wac7ysb48OaltWcw
Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc"
Content-Description: Digital signature
Content-Disposition: inline

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQFHKjUsRO4fQQdv5AwRAnaaAKDMu9HblE4JbKlVleDAs3ocBX/n8QCfSAQe
u+/v0PgN87z7IYknfcpUmrA=
=yEiB
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----

--wac7ysb48OaltWcw--