Re: Will there be Intel Wireless 3945ABG support?

[Daniel Bonekeeper]

On 7/11/06, Matthieu CASTET <castet.matthieu@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

[quote]

Porting wpi

When asked the likelihood that the wpi driver would be ported to
Linux, Damien thought that this was unlikely. "I doubt the Linux
community will ever leverage this work since Intel is developing a
802.11 layer for the Linux kernel," he said, "Linux kernel developers
probably can't afford to upset Intel."

[/quote]

Huh ?

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