On 2010 Jan 23 (Sat) at 16:17:29 +0000 (+0000), Luis Henriques wrote:
:On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 10:55:22PM -0500, Daniel Dickman wrote:
:> > 1) Most of the code I'm using is from Linux driver which is AFAIK GPL'ed
code.
:> > Is this a problem?
:>
:> Why do you think the code is GPL'ed? What driver did you look at? Some
:> of the atheros code in the linux kernel comes from OpenBSD. For
:> example:
:>
:>
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=blob;f=drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath5k/ath5k.h;h=6a2a9676111121cc1523aadbad93a22e9edc4382;hb=HEAD
:>
:> Note the copyright at the top:
:> Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Reyk Floeter <r...@openbsd.org>
:>
:> Not to mention the non-GPL license that follows...
:
:I used as reference the ath5k Linux device driver and the atheros_hal from
:NetBSD. My question is just: can I do this and publish a patch? I am using
:the code for myself at the moment and, of course, I would like to share it.
:I just don't want to get into troubles.
:
If the code that you used is based on ISC and/or BSD licenses, then it
should be safe. The top of the file normally contians the actual license
that it is under.
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