Return-path: Received: from mail-wy0-f174.google.com ([74.125.82.174]:47366 "EHLO mail-wy0-f174.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752255Ab1FOHf2 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 15 Jun 2011 03:35:28 -0400 Received: by wya21 with SMTP id 21so90775wya.19 for ; Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:35:27 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <19c91580a532e641b4817ec6b3191d84.squirrel@mail.errtech.com> References: <580b0ce8e524bbdee36d8d713e32c97a.squirrel@mail.errtech.com> <6180c38b62596f43ad139fa4a0d6ef24.squirrel@mail.errtech.com> <19c91580a532e641b4817ec6b3191d84.squirrel@mail.errtech.com> Date: Wed, 15 Jun 2011 13:05:27 +0530 Message-ID: (sfid-20110615_093532_147610_DA54D3DC) Subject: Re: GPL firmware for AR9002 chipsets From: Mohammed Shafi To: tmail133@kglug.org Cc: linux-wireless Mailing List , Senthil Balasubramanian Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 1:01 PM, chris wrote: > > > >> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:39 PM, chris wrote: >>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:35 PM, Mohammed Shafi >>>> wrote: >>>>> On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 12:31 PM, chris wrote: >>>>>> I was reading on the mailing list that the AR9002 chipset supposedly >>>>>> has >>>>>> GPL firmware somewhere. Does anybody know where? And is it free >>>>>> software >>>>>> compliant or are they including the bad stuff within the GPL >>>>>> firmware'd. >>>>> >>>>> only for USB based AR9002 devices firmware required >>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/ath9k_htc >>> >>> I don't see license or source there. Is there some place I can get that? >> >> ?the source for the firmware is internally maintained and you can only >> get the updated binary there. >> sorry I am not aware of the license thing. >> > > If anybody else is aware of where the source code is and if it is/is not > in fact under a free software license it would be much appreciated. the source code is maintained internally in Atheros by Sujith > > > > -- shafi