Brad Fritz wrote:
Oh. I was looking at ftp://aiedownload.intel.com/df-support/2897/ENG/e1000.txt.On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:29:47 MST Greg Morgan wrote:Stefan Engel wrote: <snip>Finally, as I just posted in another message on this thread, a software license question needs to be resolved about distribution of the compiled module.Is there anybody out there who has the e1000.o module for Bering 1.0 rc4 already built? Or do I have to do it on my own?
Looks like the source at http://sourceforge.net/projects/e1000/ is GPLed. The LICENSE
file in e1000-4.3.15.tar.gz says so anyhow:
brad@lab:~$ head -n5 /tmp/e1000-4.3.15/LICENSE "This software program is licensed subject to the GNU General Public License (GPL). Version 2, June 1991, available at <http://www.fsf.org/copyleft/gpl.html>"
there is a GPL license header in all the source files as well.
"This driver is only supported as a loadable module at this time. Intel is not
supplying patches against the kernel source to allow for static linking of
the driver. For questions related to hardware requirements, refer to the
documentation supplied with your Intel PRO/1000 adapter. All hardware
requirements listed apply to use with Linux."
In times past I looked at the work Donald Becker did on gigabit cards. The scyld.com site always said to find your e1000 driver at Intel.com because Intel had written it. http://www.scyld.com/network/index.html#gigabit
"* Contact Intel directly for the Linux driver for their gigabit card. They have a non-GPL driver. Because of the license conflict this driver may not be pre-linked or pre-patched into the Linux kernel."
No I think you have found a new source of gpled e1000 drivers.Disclaimer: IANAL and I may be overlooking licensing and distribution issues here.
Greg Morgan
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