On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 01:06:51 +0100 Christian Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi, > > over at opensolaris, people are making progress bringing wifi to solaris > x86/x86_64. But for them, it's a problem that bcm43xx is under GPL. Is > there anychance that this project will change its licence model to > something even more liberal? We already discussed about this, actually thinking about BSD. We won't release the full code under a license which would permit a corporation (i.e. Broadcom) to use our code in any proprietary application. Most of this driver is Linux specific, but if there are snippets of code needed for porting to other opensource OS, there wouldn't be any problem to release these parts of code, at least the ones I own copyright of, under a lesser license, but I think there wouldn't be any problem for code wrote by other people too (I discussed about this with Michael so far). Please consider as well that specs are mostly complete as of now, and that reading them together with our code would provide, IMHO, an excellent documentation about how to write a driver for any OS, as it carries examples and algorithms, too. So please let us know what you need, I don't really think that releasing the full driver under a lesser license would help you in any way, as most of code is OS specific, actually. -- ciao st3 _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
