On Tue, 2009-01-13 at 23:09 +0000, Paul Harris 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.)
I would really dislike seeing that happen. A BSD license would allow others to take the great (but incomplete) work done here, expand upon it and not give back, providing them with more (possibly closed) functionality than the original authors have. That completely invalidates the spirit of FOSS IMHO. b. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
