Hi Joshua. Thanks for your fast response (same goes to the other people who replied, too).
> Please feel free to ask any specific questions. Maybe the most important question is: does the MadWifi project qualify as member of the SPI at all? Some background about our activity is provided at [1] and specifically at [2]. Our best known "product" so far is MadWifi, a Linux kernel driver for WLAN devices with Atheros chipsets. While the driver itself is entirely free (it's distributed dual-licensed, three-clause BSD and GPLv2) it depends on a piece of code that is distributed in binary form only and under a proprietary license. This binary part is called "HAL" (short for "Hardware Abstraction Layer") and is required to talk to the Atheros hardware. Details about why the HAL is distributed in binary-only form is provided on [3]. However, we recently decided to take a different path [4] and started another driver, ath5k, which in the long run will replace MadWifi. The goal is to provide a driver for Atheros devices that is entirely open-sourced and does no longer depend on the binary HAL part. But it will take a good amount of time until we are there; during that time MadWifi will not be actively developed, but it will still receive support and bug fixes. Hence the question: does the existence (and the ongoing support) of MadWifi (the driver) cause any problems regarding a possible SPI membership? Bye, Mike [1] http://madwifi.org/wiki/About [2] http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/TheProject [3] http://madwifi.org/wiki/About/HAL [4] http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20070920/madwifi-moves-away-from-binary-only-hal _______________________________________________ Spi-general mailing list [email protected] http://lists.spi-inc.org/listinfo/spi-general
