Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 21:40:49 +0000 (GMT) From: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> Cc: <hardware@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Getting a USB serial device working Message-ID: <20020116213625.G40545-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <4.3.2.7.2.20020116072209.01dcea00@localhost>
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On Wed, 16 Jan 2002, Brett Glass wrote: > At 05:59 AM 1/16/2002, Andrew Gordon wrote: > >the more open devices. There's Linux support at > > > > http://ftdi-usb-sio.sourceforge.net/ > > > >and I have used information from there to write a trivial dumb-terminal > >which talks through the FreeBSD "ugen" device to access the port; this > >is more proof-of-concept rather than anything useful, but I've put it > >online in case of interest: > > > > http://www.arg1.demon.co.uk/freebsd.html > > Unfortunately, if it's derived from Linux code it is likely to be > GPL-infected. Was the GPL present in the source files or in the > archive in which they came? If so, we must either ask the author to > relicense or implement from scratch, since it is vitally important > to keep the GPL out of the BSD kernels. The protocol is documented in a .h file; it is neither necessary nor useful to look at the driver code. The .h file contains no copyright message whatsoever, and indicates that all the information in it was obtained from FTDI. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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