Re: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL
From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 23 2006 - 08:44:10 EST
Hi!
> I'm trying to get "IPWireless 3G PCMCIA" to work under linux. There
> are two problems:
>
> * first, only available version is for 2.6.12, and fixes to make it
> compile under 2.6.16 don't seem to be trivial
>
> What is worse,
>
> /*
> * IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver
> *
> * by Stephen Blackheath <stephen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> * Ben Martel <benm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *
> * Copyrighted as follows:
> * Copyright (C) 2004 by Symmetric Systems Ltd (NZ)
> */
>
> ...so I'm not even allowed to fix it. I believe that driver should be
> GPLed -- it is unusable without pcmcia packages after all.
Uhuh, I was blind, there's MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") there, so all should
be fine. So... there are no legal problems and it is all "simple
matter of programming". Now... if someone lent me the PCMCIA/SIM
combination for a month, I guess I should be able to get it going in
2.6.16, and I should be able to get it into shape for mainline, too...
Pavel
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