2013.01.06. 10:48 keltezéssel, John Crispin írta: > On 05/01/13 23:49, Michel Stempin wrote: >> Generic support for RT5350 WLAN. Thanks to Heffer for rebasing my patch to >> current trunk. >> Details see https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=37002&p=3 >> >> Original patch from Serge Vasilugin is broken by MTA >> (http://patchwork.openwrt.org/patch/3055/), here is a working and tested >> version. >> >> Signed-off-by: Serge Vasilugin<[email protected]> >> Tested-by: Michel Stempin<[email protected]> >> --- > > Hi, > > cool, let me try this one later on... can you also send this upstream to > rt2x00 > please ?
Sending the patch to rt2x00 or adding the patch to the OpenWrt repository would cause lincensing issues, IMO. According to the original post [1] from Serge, the patch is based on the wireless driver published in the GPL tarball provided for the DIR-320NRU. The source files of that wireless driver contains this text: > *************************************************************************** > * Ralink Tech Inc. > * 4F, No. 2 Technology 5th Rd. > * Science-based Industrial Park > * Hsin-chu, Taiwan, R.O.C. > * > * (c) Copyright 2002-2004, Ralink Technology, Inc. > * > * All rights reserved. Ralink's source code is an unpublished work and the > * use of a copyright notice does not imply otherwise. This source code > * contains confidential trade secret material of Ralink Tech. Any attemp > * or participation in deciphering, decoding, reverse engineering or in any > * way altering the source code is stricitly prohibited, unless the prior > * written consent of Ralink Technology, Inc. is obtained. > *************************************************************************** Although I'm not a lawyer, but in my understanding, this does not allows to use that code as a basis for GPL licensed driver. -Gabor 1. https://forum.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?pid=186188#p186188 _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
