أAhmed, The issues concern the Proprietary modem/dsplibs.o which is compiled into the slmodemd utility. It includes the copyrighted Vnm compression codes, and other core Smartllink intellectual property which has never been Open Source. It has always been compiled at Smartlink, Inc. Even former Linux maintainer of the code, Sasha Kharposky and then a contractor to Smartlink, never had access to the uncompiled dsplibs code. The dsplibs.o in the Debian/Ubuntu packages are version 2.9.9e .The later 2.9.11 code carrried a License which Eduard Bloch found less appropriate for inclusion in Debian packages. Thus this List has served the slmodem-2.9.11 series packages from Jacques Goldberg's Linmodems site, the http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ , for those less concerned about the subtle licensing issues. smslmodem-2.9.11-20080417.tar.gz was a misnaming, which Jacques has now fixed. The most current package with recent patches applied is slmodem-2.9.11-20090222.tar.gz The rights to distribution of Smartlink modem technology was sold a few years ago to Conexant Inc., through (as I crudely understand it) Smartlink retained their Intellectual Property rights. The last time Sasha commented on these issues, he related that the current Smartlink management was not cooperative on Open Source issues, or changing the License of the 2.9.11 release to the more favorable ones of the 2.9.9e release. That is the extent of my knowledge. MarvS On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 1:10 PM, أحمد المحمودي <aelmahmoudy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 08:21:48PM -0500, Marvin Stodolsky wrote: >> Credit & thanks to Ahmed > ---end quoted text--- > > I only deserve credit for the last patch I sent you (The one for > gcc4.3 build failure), as for the rest of the patches, the following > deserve the credit: > > karlheg@xxxxxxx: 02_dial_string_size.diff. > Maurizio Avogadro <mavoga@xxxxxxxxx>: class_device.diff patch. > Gentoo & Eduard Bloch: 06_slmodem-class-simple-to-class-meins.diff. > > The rest of the patches were introduced to slmodem's Debian package by > the previous maintainer, Eduard Bloch <blade@xxxxxxxxxx>. > > What is this smslmodem-2.9.11-20080417.tar.gz tarball on > http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/packages/smartlink/ ? > > -- > أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) > Digital design engineer > GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ subkeys.pgp.net) > GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27 >
