Re: Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support?

[Matthieu CASTET]

Le Tue, 11 Jul 2006 19:55:19 +0100, Alan Cox a écrit :

> Ar Maw, 2006-07-11 am 21:25 +0300, ysgrifennodd Alon Bar-Lev:
>> And to have a system that you know exactly what running in it...
>> Having a binary closed source violate this.
> 
> Also if the binary only chunk of code is neccessary to make the open
> source bit work then its a derivative work as I understand the
> situation, which makes it all rather questionable from a licensing
> perspsective.
> 
> Hopefully Intel will find a sensible solution to the problem or someone
> will just reverse engineer it away.
> 
Well openbsd guys already reversed engineer it :
http://kerneltrap.org/node/6650

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