Hello. On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:00, Oleg Gusev wrote: > Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 12:34 schrieb Stefan Schmidt: > > > > Keep in mind that the FIC team have no wifi on > > the phone because no vendor allowed them to put the wlan driver under > > GPL. So they make the dicision to lack wifi instead of using unethical > > binary-only kernel modules. > > > The TI acx100 driver used by many PDAs and phones > is released under GPL and loads the binary firmware > into baseband and radio amplifier.
IIRC TI acx100 driver is a re driver. It's not the only one in the kernel. Wireless driver are hard to be done right and without datasheets it's even harder. The vendors can still offer the datasheets under a NDA which allows and GPL driver written with this information. It is totaly fine to re a driver for your private hardware, but if you are a company which like to builf this hardware into their devices, a re driver is not a good choice in my opinion. > > For your questions about GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 I can just say it is the > > choice of the company which version they choose. Not everybody is > > happy with the new version. > > > Any developer is free to include the "or (at your option) any later version" > clause for his work. If you do this other people can use your code under GPLv3 or GPLv4 which you perhaps don't like. regards Stefan Schmidt
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