Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 14:13:17 -0400 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> To: hackers@freebsd.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com Subject: de-GNUfication of Digiboard driver ? Message-ID: <39218FBD.1FA9B252@bellatlantic.net>
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Hi, I've been reading recently some stories about the licensing issues and that brought me to an interesting conclusion: apparently, we are able to change the license of the Digiboard driver from GPL to BSD ? It does not seem to be that much important any more as these cards are obsolete, but still. I was the original author of that driver. To get the information about the Digi interface I've read the Linux driver. I supposed that it made me mentally contaminated with GPL. But all the FreeBSD driver was written from scratch, with none of the Linux code re-used (except for the array with the image of firmware but apparently that one was available as well from non-GPL-contaminated sources, such as Digi's drivers for other Unixes). But now looking at the BSD-USL case it seems like I was wrong about the mental contamination. Apparently none of the author of the later changes to this driver were enthusiastic about GPL as well. So if I'm getting the things right, can we just go ahead now and change its license to BSD ? Or am I wrong ? -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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