Re: GPLv3 and Mobile Phones

2006-12-09 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:00, Oleg Gusev wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 12:34 schrieb Stefan Schmidt: Keep in mind that the FIC team have no wifi on the phone because no vendor allowed them to put the wlan driver under GPL. So they make the dicision to lack wifi instead of

Re: GPLv3 and Mobile Phones

2006-12-09 Thread Stefan Schmidt
Hello. On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 13:24, Gabriel Ambuehl wrote: On Saturday 09 December 2006 13:00, Oleg Gusev wrote: The TI acx100 driver used by many PDAs and phones is released under GPL and loads the binary firmware into baseband and radio amplifier. Supposedly even that is too

Re: GPLv3 and Mobile Phones

2006-12-09 Thread Jeff Andros
On 12/9/06, Stefan Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: With ROM you refer to chips that can be written only once? I doubt that many of such chips are still alive. PROM's are used typically where you are producing an end product where you don't need to update. They're MUCH cheaper than an

SD on Sharp Zaurus 5500 (was: GPLv3 and Mobile Phones)

2006-12-09 Thread Michael 'Mickey' Lauer
This is way off topic, but I can't stand it uncorrected. Oleg Gusev wrote: Am Samstag, 9. Dezember 2006 17:59 schrieb Richard Franks: You might have to perform some really ugly hacks to ensure this backwards compatibility, and it may even affect overall system performance - but it's still a