Just a friendly reminder: For those of you who have not read yet what "Signed-off-by" means, specially those who are new to contributing to the Linux kernel on linux-wireless I'd like to encourage you to go and review it and read what this means. You can find it under Documentation/SubmittingPatches, on the: "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" Specifically the part that mentions how you right to submit it under the same open source license indicated in the file. This is particularly important for ath5k/ath9k as these drivers do have some files licensed the 3-clause BSD license (only in ath5k) and ISC license (ath9k is completely ISC). In the future we would like to point the BSD community and even Solaris (yeah they seem interested in such a driver it seems) toward ath5k and ath9k updates for the latest updates on INI file updates, and hardare access routines so we want to remove any legal ambiguity with respect for them to be able to copy+paste code (even though that's not likely what they'll do exactly, but this should help). Technically speaking there are also some enhancements that can come our way towards that we can use towards our Windows driver too but realistically this has been minimal so far. If you could use GPL licensed drivers under Windows that would remove all this silly ISC/BSD licening preferences but the real reason to this e-mail is more towards helping the BSD / Solaris community out. Realistically speaking you cannot also expect all OSes to be license compatible, at least at this point :). We have been using the Changes-licensed-under tag [1] for ath5k development but for ath9k we tend to ask developers individually if they are willing submit their changes and any future ath9k changes under the ISC. We keep this for our records just in case you haven't read the Singed-off-by. I think it'd be easier too if we ensure developers really read that document too and ensure they understand it and also understood why are are doing this. We'll keep using the ath5k Changes-licensed-under tag until we get advice from SFLC if we have done enough to ensure this is no longer necessary. For ath9k, if we are not sure if you have read the "Developer's Certificate of Origin 1.1" we may ping you with an e-mail just to be sure. While you're at it please subscribe to the wireless.kernel.org SubmittingPatches page so you can get updates in case there are changes there. Ps. Please do not open any can of worms here, this is just informational. [1] http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/SubmittingPatches#Changes-licensed-undertag Thanks, Luis -- 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
