Return-path: Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:57590 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752228Ab0K3UA2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:00:28 -0500 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:00:19 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" Cc: bkuhn@ebb.org, Alan Cox , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless , Greg KH , David Miller , "John W. Linville" , Stephen Hemminger , "Perez-Gonzalez, Inaky" , Charles Marker , Jouni Malinen , Kevin Hayes , Zhifeng Cai , Don Breslin , Doug Dahlby , Julia Lawall Subject: Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first Message-ID: <20101130200019.GA28735@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20101118113441.74fcdc21@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20101130192648.GA1623@ucw.cz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Tue 2010-11-30 11:30:18, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek wrote: > > 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. > > Oh? Kernel is GPL. Dual BSD/GPL is ok. Just BSD... I don't think so. /* * Copyright (c) 2008 Atheros Communications Inc. * * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies. * ...but I need permission to relicense it under GPL, and I'm not sure I have it. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html