[OT] legal status of re-engineering (was Re: atheros driver - desc)

2005-08-25 Thread Harald Welte
Sorry for again posting something OT, but I think the result of this discussion will in the end provide valuable input to a lot of driver authors. On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:01:34PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:32:07AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: Harald Welte [EMAIL

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-12 Thread Chris Wedgwood
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:01:34PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: I will consult my legal counsel about this. My current naive position on this is that only the actuall process of the re-engineering matters, not the result. Which countries is this advice valid for? Does someone need to chase

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-12 Thread Harald Welte
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 12:37:55AM -0700, Chris Wedgwood wrote: On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 05:01:34PM +0200, Harald Welte wrote: I will consult my legal counsel about this. My current naive position on this is that only the actuall process of the re-engineering matters, not the result.

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-07 Thread Kalle Valo
Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to turn this list into a list of legal discussion, but since I'm heavily dealing with exactly those issues during my gpl-violations.org efforts, I thought I share some of the facts. Thanks for your answer, it cleared up things. I also don't

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-07 Thread Harald Welte
On Sun, Aug 07, 2005 at 10:32:07AM +0300, Kalle Valo wrote: Harald Welte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to turn this list into a list of legal discussion, but since I'm heavily dealing with exactly those issues during my gpl-violations.org efforts, I thought I share some of the

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-06 Thread Kalle Valo
Mateusz Berezecki [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The driver is not yet fully working because I didn't finish kernel integration yet. Almost all driver I/O ops are reverse engineered independently of openbsd openhal which is missing just too much. Ok, enough talking. Most of the atheros 5212 hal

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-06 Thread Mateusz Berezecki
Kalle Valo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | This is great news. An open source Atheros driver which could be | included to Linux is really needed. | | But how was the reverse engineering done? I noticed that forcedeth | driver was implemented using the clean room design[1] and Linux | Broadcom 4301

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Renzmann
Hi. Mateusz Berezecki wrote: Im sending a series of 8 patches splitted and diffed as in SubmittingPatches documentation. Patch 4/8 is missing here. Bye, Mike -- Use PGP/GPG! My key: http://keys.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/lookup?op=getsearch=62C29B94 Fingerprint: BC2E 79BF 0C8F 0282 864B 9CEC 8343

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-05 Thread Bryan O'Sullivan
On Fri, 2005-08-05 at 04:55 +0200, Mateusz Berezecki wrote: The driver is not yet fully working because I didn't finish kernel integration yet. How far from working is it? I have a miniPCI Atheros card and would be interested in helping out with bringing the driver up, but it would be good

Re: atheros driver - desc

2005-08-05 Thread Jeff Garzik
Mateusz Berezecki wrote: Hi list members, I just post the code for review for anyone interested. I would be more than pleased to hear some feedback from you on the code. Im sending a series of 8 patches splitted and diffed as in SubmittingPatches documentation. The driver is not yet fully

atheros driver - desc

2005-08-04 Thread Mateusz Berezecki
Hi list members, I just post the code for review for anyone interested. I would be more than pleased to hear some feedback from you on the code. Im sending a series of 8 patches splitted and diffed as in SubmittingPatches documentation. The driver is not yet fully working because I didn't