Return-path: Received: from charlotte.tuxdriver.com ([70.61.120.58]:59026 "EHLO smtp.tuxdriver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751219AbZGVOay (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:30:54 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 10:24:13 -0400 From: "John W. Linville" To: Kamil Dzida Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: AR5523 driver - old Atheros USB Message-ID: <20090722142413.GD5276@tuxdriver.com> References: <20090721210422.GA24285@lst.de> <43e72e890907211424j2c1eecdauf1d8279baec0f6f9@mail.gmail.com> <20090721214219.GA25392@lst.de> <43e72e890907211703y72ffe8cdv88ba9e3c59d1b76@mail.gmail.com> <928354.18240.qm@web56107.mail.re3.yahoo.com> <43e72e890907211804i1e1fa166y810caa95563bc695@mail.gmail.com> <4A66A482.6050401@erley.org> <20090722123727.GB3927@tuxdriver.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 02:15:15PM +0000, Kamil Dzida wrote: > John W. Linville writes: > > > > > On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 08:00:28AM +0000, Kamil Dzida wrote: > > > > > It seems that OpenBSD has driver for AR5523 (AR5005UG and AR5005UX) upstream. > > > I doubt that they would like to share their code with Linux - > like dual licensing > > > GPL/BSD. > > > > At the risk of starting another flame war with insane people, I'll > > point-out that dual licensing is not necessary. The BSD licensed > > code is completely available to us. > > > > John > > > I am not here to start a flame war of any sort, > yet if it sounded like that then I am terribly sorry. > I came here to aid with a link to man page which includes a good list of > AR5005UG and AR5005UX based hardware which could be useful for the > developers. > > Anyway thank you for the clarification. Whether or not you are insane remains to be seen. :-) Nevertheless, you were _not_ the "insane people" I was alluding to above... John -- John W. Linville Someday the world will need a hero, and you linville@tuxdriver.com might be all we have. Be ready. ?Viva Honduras Libre!