On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 03:07:11PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > On Thu, Nov 01, 2007 at 02:59:00PM -0400, John W. Linville wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 03:37:43PM -0400, Forest Bond wrote: > > > A few months ago, VIA quietly released the source for their VT6656 USB WiFi > > > chip. The original VIA archive can be downloaded here: > > Any luck getting license clarification from VIA? > I did send a few e-mails (one to the driver developer, and one to a personal > contact at VIA), but neither has yielded anything useful. I think the only > remaining effective option is to bring it up on viaarena.com. Consumer angst > runs thick in those parts, and VIA has occasionally been known to respond > semi-positively. In this case, that just might be enough, since their > intentions were clearly to open-source the driver, despite their apparent > inability to document this properly. > > Does that seem like a good path to you? Thas sounds great to me. I look forward to hearing the results! Thanks, John -- John W. Linville linville@xxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
