On Sat, May 07, 2011 at 10:24:44AM -0700, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: > On 05/07/2011 06:51 PM, RafaÅ MiÅecki wrote: > > 2011/5/7 Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@xxxxxxxxxx>: > >> There is a Ethernet core used on embedded devices with this bus and > >> George wrote a driver for the first version of this bus implementation, > >> he send to the ML. Most user will use this with some wireless devices so > >> I would add linux-wireless@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Why does ssb uses netdev ML? > > > > Thanks, I didn't know about this ethernet driver. Have to check it! > > Where was this published? Do you have a thread name? > > I think he haven't send it to the mailing list, there is a link [0] in > some Ticket [1] at OpenWrt. This driver was derived from source code > Braodcom have published, but not under a GPL compatible license. It will > be nice if Braodcom would allow us to publish a driver under the terms > of the GPL for the Ethernet core based on their driver, without writing > a full spec of the driver like it was done for b43. ... > > [0] http://www.znau.edu.ua/temp/asus-rt-n16/openwrt-bcm4716-README.txt > [1] https://dev.openwrt.org/ticket/6580#comment All of of the patches listed in [0] appear to contain GPL-licensed code. Can you provide a pointer to the ethernet driver that you think is not under a GPL-compatible license? Thanks, --- Henry Ptasinski henryp@xxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
