Re: Atheros and rt2x00 driver

From: Florian Weimer
Date: Wed Aug 31 2005 - 02:57:37 EST


* Jeff Garzik:

> There is still the open question of whether this is legal enough to
> include in the kernel :(

Are you referring to FTC issues, or potential copyright/trade secret
issues?

The FTC issues are shared by many (most?) wireless drivers. The
copyright/trade secret issues might be worked around by basing the
work on the OpenBSD version of that driver (and someone is actually
working on that).
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