Date: Mon, 22 May 2000 20:12:39 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org, jkh@time.cdrom.com, brian@hak.lan.awfulhak.org Subject: Re: de-GNUfication of Digiboard driver ? Message-ID: <200005221912.UAA00794@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> of "Tue, 16 May 2000 14:13:17 EDT." <39218FBD.1FA9B252@bellatlantic.net>
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More work needs to be done here... The dgb and dgm drivers are
almost the same, and the dgb driver doesn't probe my digiboard at the
moment (I don't know if this is due to broken hardware or a broken
driver). The driver doesn't conform to style(9) and needs to be
newbusified.
I've been intending to work on this driver for over a year now :-/
If you're not interested in the other issues, BSDifying it would be
an excellent start though :-) Send me the patches and I'll commit.
Cheers.
> 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
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