> On Wed, Oct 01, 2008 at 05:40:29PM +0100, TJ wrote:
>> On Wed, 2008-10-01 at 14:13 +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>>On Wednesday 01 October 2008, Greg KH wrote:
>>>> On Mon, Sep 29, 2008 at 09:49:34AM +0400, Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
>>>>> I have here driver that can be built for two different types of
>>>>> hardware from basically the same sources (this is port of old Agere
>>>>> drivers for Hermes-I/Hermes-II chipsets).
>>>>
>>>> Cool, do you have a link to the code, I'd be glad to add it to
>>>> drivers/staging/ if it's not in a fully-mergable state yet to get wider
>>>> users for it.
>>>
>>> You can look at it here:
http://arvidjaar.newmail.ru/wlags49.tar.bz
>>>
>>> I doubt that it is suitable for inclusion at current state if ever.
>>> This is taken directly from Agere 2.4 sources; the only parts that were
>>> touched are kernel glue and wireless extensions interface.
>>>
>>> And it is not GPL'ed, of course. I attach E-Mail I received a while
>>> back with answere from Agere legal department.
>>
>> I'm attaching the original email I sent to Agere and their response for
>> the record, hoping it helps clarify the legal position.
>
> Very nice, thanks for forwarding this on.
>
> As the license is BSD, that means we can place it in the kernel tree.
> Do you all mind if I add it to the drivers/staging/ directory so you can
> work on cleaning it up within the main kernel tree infrastructure?
