Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:26:48 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
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	Don Breslin <Don.Breslin@atheros.com>,
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Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first
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Hi!

> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this
> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's
> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for
> >
> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL,
> 
> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with
> permissive licensed files.

GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so
permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL.

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