Re: [Acx100-users] Linux mainline inclusion, legal issues

[Oliver W. <oli...@ol...>]

Hi,

The clarification of the legal question is currently still an ongoing
project and within this context also contacts to TI have been
established. Until now however there no consolidated status yet, but it
will be followed up.

Surely there are a number of reasons, why an mainline inclusion is
desirable, also for this driver/hw. In the meanwhile, thanks a
lot in any case for your patch for the 3.7.0 adaptations. 

Best Regards, Oliver


On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 18:06:32 +0200
Hauke Mehrtens <ha...@ha...> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This driver wasn't included into mainline linux kernel because of
> legal problems concerting the reverse engineering of the binary TI
> driver to develop this driver.
> 
> One way was to ask TI to allow this driver being licensed under the
> GPL also if it could contain their intellectual property originally
> not covered by that license. [1] As TI started to work with the open
> source community some years ago and also works on a open source
> driver for some more recent wifi cards by them self, did someone
> recently (in the last few years) asked the TI guys if they could
> allow this driver to be licensed under the terms of the GPL, also if
> it could contain their intellectual property?
> 
> I am currently not using this driver and I have to search for my
> cards I have last seen some years ago, but it really sucks to have an
> out of tree driver. If someone changes the API to mac80211 or any
> other in kernel API you have to adapt these changes by your self like
> this one: [2].
> 
> Hauke
> 
> [0]:
> http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/acx100/index.php?title=History
> [1]: https://lkml.org/lkml/2006/6/5/39 [2]:
> https://dev.openwrt.org/browser/trunk/package/acx-mac80211/patches/001-make-compatible-with-recent-mac80211.patch
> 
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