Il giorno mar, 14/11/2006 alle 15.04 -0500, Richard Franks ha scritto: > > > The One Laptop per Child project is developing a free driver + firmware > > > for the Marvell chip that will be used in the $100 Laptop. Maybe that > > > code could be reused here. > > > > How free? NDA and a GPL'ed driver afterwards? > > > > Have you got a link for me about this? > > Quotes selected from: > http://www.thejemreport.com/mambo/content/view/286/
[quotes snipped] I took my references from Jim Getty's blog: http://www.gettysfamily.org/wordpress/?p=27 Marvell is not in a position to open their wireless firmware as it is currently dependent on the third party operating system kernel that they do not own. A GPL Linux device driver for the Marvell wireless chip, the Libertas driver, still under development but also fully functional can be found in ourGIT tree. We are having open firmware for the Marvell wireless chip developed by Meraki. I don’t know yet what license that code will be released under, though would expect it would likely be one or more of the MIT, LGPL or GPL licenses; but we’ll have to think through the usage cases and needs of the communities involved before we can make that choice. This new firmware will be distributable by anyone to anyone in source or binary form. The existing closed firmware blob will be similarly redistributable as soon as we finish working with Marvell’s lawyers to get the right language on the license for it. Giovanni _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/community