On Wednesday 14 January 2009 02:19:05 David Ellingsworth wrote: > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 6:09 PM, Paul Harris <p...@whotookspaz.org> 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*
Please don't spread clearly incorrect statements like these. I am willing to relicense parts of the driver on a per-case base. I said that more than once. Please contact me and the other copyright holders _BEFORE_ you take the code. So you show me the lines you want, and we decide whether you get permission or not. Everything I said in this thread: http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=117571766928130&w=2 still applies. Besides that, you might want to contact the DragonFly people, which are developing a BSD licensed BCM driver from scratch. -- Greetings, Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list Bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
