On Thursday 29 June 2006 16:26, John W. Linville wrote: > I apologize for the long copy list. I have tried to include all > known interested parties. > > This is a follow-up to a thread started by Andrew a few weeks ago > about what should be merged for 2.6.18. One of the topics he cited > was the ACX100 driver which he has carried in -mm for quite some time. > I have a slightly different (softmac based) version of that driver > in wireless-2.6 which I think is worth merging now. > > In the aforementioned thread, some questions were raised about the > legality of the ACX100 driver (i.e. tiacx) code base, but no one > had any specific points other than that it is not 100% "clean room" > derived. Others point-out that this is not strictly a requirement. > The matter dropped without a strong defense from the tiacx team. > > I hereby invite the tiacx team to defend their work by making public, > affirmative statements indicating a) how they produced their code; and, > b) that they have the legal right to license it as part of the Linux > kernel under the GPL. As an incentive to this, I have already made > the necessary preparations for this driver to be merged immediately.
About the part of the acx code which was done by me: I was working upon the already existing acx driver. I do not know how it was developed before I started to play with it, but I certainly never worked for TI and did not receive any code or documents from TI (I was asking for the documentation, but there was no answer). I realize that this info is not enough to determine whether tiacx driver is "clean" legalese-wise. -- vda - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
