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From: Andrew Gordon <arg-bsd@arg1.demon.co.uk>
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To: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org>
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Subject: Re: Getting a USB serial device working
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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.


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