Reyk Floeter wrote: > I'm still waiting for an answer. Your process is taking too long. > > Reyk Reyk (and everybody else), I'm writing as a silent observer, not as an involved (until now) party. I will restrict my answer mostly to links to information I consider key facts of this whole affair: The development of the Linux Atheros driver (both for the official Atheros HAL and your work) takes place at www.madwifi.org. The SVN branch based on openhal can be found here: http://madwifi.org/browser/branches/ath5k Going back in the version history you WILL find revisions with the changed license. This mistake has been corrected in revision 2699. The patches from the openhal team at madwifi.org have been merged into the "official" Linux wireless repository. You can find the branch that includes the ath5k driver here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a=summary the ath5k files are here: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a=tree;f=drivers/net/wireless;h=2d6caeba0924c34b9539960b9ab568ab3d193fc8;hb=everything (look for the ath5k files). Going back in the revision history you will find, that the proposed license changes where never applied: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-dev.git;a=history;f=drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_hw.c;h=07ad1278b39037caf68825cabcf9469db059dfc8;hb=everything The mail that started this affair was: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118831729905625&w=2 If you follow this thread, you will see, that the obvious problems were immediately flagged in the review process. Next thing: While the proposed change was obviously bad, it *SEEMS* that this was a honest mistake. The following mail by Sam Leffler suggest, that Jiri Slaby tried to get the consent of the *BSD developers: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/5305 Most of the ensuing flame war centered around whether it was illegal to change the license of those dual licensed files. Alan Cox stated in http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.network/70533 "So whats the problem ?" Theo de Raadt in http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.openbsd.misc/127782 wrote "Alan asks "So whats the problem ?". Well, Alan, I must caution you -- your post is advising people to break the law." This made a lot of people upset and the whole thing went out of hand. It was more or less finally settled with the following mail: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/5303 This affair *NEVER* came close to what one would consider the official Linux repository, e.g. Linus tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=summary And for Linus' position to BSD vs. GPL in drivers is summarized here: http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/5452 Kind regards Joerg -- Regards Joerg Machen Sie Yahoo! zu Ihrer Startseite. Los geht's: http://de.yahoo.com/set - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
