On 14 February 2011 01:49, George Kashperko <geo...@znau.edu.ua> wrote: > Hi, >> >> May I ask how you got GPL compatible sources? The last time I looked >> the driver was still closed source/proprietary licensed. >> >> Regards, >> Jonas > > etcgmac.c which was for me the only source of knowledge how the gmac is > working is still "UNPUBLISHED PROPRIETARY SOURCE CODE of Broadcom > Corporation".
Well, that's a bit of a problem. The original source code's license is incompatible with the GPL, so you can't take it (or parts of it) and put it under the GPL, or merge it into GPL'd code. This is a license violation and also a copyright violation, and makes anyone (re-)distributing it vulnerable to legal action from Broadcom. That unfortunately makes it impossible to include in OpenWrt or Linux itself. You could try to contact Broadcom and get them to release the code with a GPL compatible license. That would be the only clean legal way to add a driver written by you. Regards, Jonas _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
