* Reyk Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008-07-28 09:53:58]:
Actually, I'm confused. It carries an ISC license with an Atheros
copyright. Luis Rodriguez (madwifi/ath5k) and Jouni Malinen (Linux
Prism2 HostAP) are working for Atheros now. The code seems to include
open source HAL-code, there
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
I threw my git saving throw so I was able to avoid looking at it.
There is a version in the OpenWRT tree:
https://dev.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/trac.fcgi/browser/trunk/package/ath9k/src/drivers/net/wireless/ath9k
The following thread
Reyk Floeter wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
I threw my git saving throw so I was able to avoid looking at it.
There is a version in the OpenWRT tree:
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:53 AM, Reyk Floeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
They neither apologized for all the trouble nor give me any credits
for my work. ath9k would not exist without my work on the OpenBSD
ar5k driver, it was a door opener, the base of the ath5k port, and
Atheros' way into
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Jacob Yocom-Piatt wrote:
Reyk Floeter wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
I threw my git saving throw so I was able to avoid looking at it.
There is a version in the OpenWRT tree:
Who can we write to at atheros to tell them I will never
ever purchase one of their products?
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:18:34 -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Reyk Floeter wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote:
I threw my git saving throw so
2008/7/29 Eric Furman [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Who can we write to at atheros to tell them I will never
ever purchase one of their products?
http://www.atheros.com/contact/index.html
Might work, you get e-mail, postal, and phone numbers to contact them with.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 10:47:31AM -0400, Eric Furman wrote:
| Who can we write to at atheros to tell them I will never
| ever purchase one of their products?
Maybe it's better to write a polite e-mail explaining the situation
wrt documentation vs source code (even if it is ISC licensed). This is
P.S. And, btw., they were so eager to relicense Reyk's HAL from BSD licence
to GPL -- isn't Atheros breaking the GPL licence of Linux's ath5k driver
now? Didn't they argument, that the purpose of GPL is to protect their work
from being used by big corporations for free?
Which it doesn't.
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008, Marco Peereboom wrote:
P.S. And, btw., they were so eager to relicense Reyk's HAL from BSD licence
to GPL -- isn't Atheros breaking the GPL licence of Linux's ath5k driver
now? Didn't they argument, that the purpose of GPL is to protect their work
from being used by big
On Mon, July 28, 2008 11:47, Eric Furman wrote:
Who can we write to at atheros to tell them I will never
ever purchase one of their products?
On Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:18:34 -0500, Jacob Yocom-Piatt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Reyk Floeter wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 09:28:10AM -0500, Marco
I threw my git saving throw so I was able to avoid looking at it.
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:09:49AM -0400, bofh wrote:
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:01:33PM -0400, bofh wrote:
saw
saw
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-for
and was just curious if this is true 'open source' or is it full of magic
numbers...
I have a question for you, actually.
Have you not been listening every single time when we ask for the documentation?
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 7:09 PM, Theo de Raadt [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
I have a question for you, actually.
Have you not been listening every single time when we ask for the
documentation?
I have, unfortunately. From the announcement, it sounded open source but
undocumented, and also in
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 8:53 PM, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have, unfortunately. From the announcement, it sounded open source but
undocumented, and also in conjunction with mad-wifi folks, so I didn't have
high hopes. I was just hoping that someone decided to do the right thing.
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 9:00 AM, bofh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I went back and re-read the press release. It seems to be much worse than
first glance. [we hired X to] helps enhance regulatory compliance in the
Linux kernel. This probably means locking down the driver even more.
Pretty
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 11:32 PM, Jeffrey 'jf' Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
http://linux.via.com.tw/ - the damned bastards released nothing but binary
drivers. And not even theirs at that!! (look at the filename -
via-unichrome This is a vendor, pretending to be offer open source
support
saw
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-for
and was just curious if this is true 'open source' or is it full of magic
numbers...
--
http://www.glumbert.com/media/shift
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGvHNNOLnCk
This officer's men seem to follow him
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:01:33PM -0400, bofh wrote:
saw
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-for
and was just curious if this is true 'open source' or is it full of magic
numbers...
well, you can 'git' the sources yourself.
they used
On Sun, Jul 27, 2008 at 12:02 AM, Jacob Meuser [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote:
On Sat, Jul 26, 2008 at 11:01:33PM -0400, bofh wrote:
saw
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20080725/ath9k-atheros-unveils-free-linux-driver-for
and was just curious if this is true 'open source' or is it full of magic
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