On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Paul Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello there, > > I was wondering if it would be at all possible for the developers of b43 to > consider dual licensing the drivers, so > that users of other UNIX systems could benefit from them (in particular as > part of the kernel). Obviously, as they're > not BSD-licensed, they can't be integrated into any BSD kernel, which is a > real shame, since this > makes wireless connectivity on a lot of machines impossible. At best, I'd > like to ask for the code to be released > under both licenses, but if this isn't a possibility I'd hope it would at > least be possible for special permission > to be given allowing the drivers to be BSD-licensed for integration into the > FreeBSD kernel only (the blue pill.) > Thanks for your consideration.
More than likely, this is not going to happen. Broadcom has made it extremely difficult to develop these drivers and last I heard the developers weren't too adamant about providing a path whereby Broadcom could take advantage of their efforts without contributing back to the community. If you search archives, you'll see there's plenty of tension around licensing the code under a BSD style license. *cough* bcm *cough* Regards, David Ellingsworth _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
