Re: Challenges with doing hardware bring up with Linux first

From: Luis R. Rodriguez
Date: Tue Nov 30 2010 - 14:30:46 EST


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> >> everything else can be independent code. For ath9k in particular this
>> >> means we keep ath9k_hw shared between our Operating Systems and that's
>> >> it. In addition to this I believe opening up the common drivers for
>> >
>> > The Linux copy needs to be GPL,
>>
>> GPL-Compatible you mean, right. I mean we have ath9k_hw with
>> permissive licensed files.
>
> GPL-compatible is not right word. It has to be either GPL, or so
> permissive that anyone is allowed to turn it into GPL.

Oh?

Luis
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