>On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:41:30AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: >> >Has anyone seen something about softmodems in Darwin code ? >> >> Apple don't own the source for this driver, I already asked them... >> >> All we can do is manage to get in touch with conexant to make sure >> they will build a linux/ppc driver or let one of us do it. > >Please at least ASK them if they'll GPL the driver before just assuming >that they won't, and letting them that is legitimate for them to release >a proprietary soft modem driver.
So far (according to Alan Cox), Conexant is well known for never letting a singel line of source code go out. I think when you purchase their chipset, you don't even get the source of the modem code, just a licence to a binary object file. >You might mention that the Linux kernel is not supported by the kernel >developers when a non-free module is present, which will result in lower >popularity for the iBook, which means fewer people buying iBooks, which >means fewer machines sold for Conexant to get a cut of. Conexant will probably not care here... Apple might but I doubt. >Speaking of taint, my kernel is complaining about the i2c-keywest driver >not having a license. Is this resolved in your kernel tree? I have to check, thanks for pointing out. Ben.
