> People around here use Alcatel/Thomson "Speedtouch" and Sagem
> "Fast" USB ADSLs. Linux has open-source drivers for both.
> USB seems like an advantage in this case, too - you can connect
> to any machine including non-PCI small network storage servers
> with non-x86 CPU.
In this part of the wor
"Nathan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The binary blob is run in the kernel. I wasn't aware of any
> completely open-source drivers for ADSL modems, mine is a PCI ADSL
> modem.
People around here use Alcatel/Thomson "Speedtouch" and Sagem
"Fast" USB ADSLs. Linux has open-source drivers
> My company has been given documentation and the library source under
> the terms of an NDA with the chipset manufacturer. We are permitted
> to compile the library and distribute the resultant binary blob, but
> not release the source to the library.
> The binary blob is linked into the driver
> > My company has been given documentation and the library source under
> > the terms of an NDA with the chipset manufacturer. We are permitted
> > to compile the library and distribute the resultant binary blob, but
> > not release the source to the library.
> >
> > The binary blob is linked in
> My company has been given documentation and the library source under
> the terms of an NDA with the chipset manufacturer. We are permitted
> to compile the library and distribute the resultant binary blob, but
> not release the source to the library.
>
> The binary blob is linked into the drive
On Tuesday 07 August 2007, Nathan Williams wrote:
> My company has been given documentation and the library source under
> the terms of an NDA with the chipset manufacturer. We are permitted
> to compile the library and distribute the resultant binary blob, but
> not release the source to the libr
> b) if the binary blob is really a library to be run in kernel (host)
> space then there is no point in writing such driver - there are
> completely open-source drivers for ADSL devices and most (if not
> all) people will prefer them over any binary library.
>
> Perhaps you can convince the chipse
> I'm working on a driver for an ADSL modem which requires the use of a
> binary library from the chipset manufacturer. All my source code is
> GPL, so that others are free to distribute and modify the driver.
> After asking the FSF for advice and working through their FAQ, I've
> given permissio
Hi,
"Nathan Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I'm working on a driver for an ADSL modem which requires the use of a
> binary library from the chipset manufacturer.
Legal things aside, the practical solutions are:
a) if the binary "library" is just firmware running on modem's CPU
(outside
Hello Nathan,
There has been a lot of discussion about this in the past.
Read for example this thread: http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/12/13/370
This will probably clears some things up.
Remy
2007/8/6, Nathan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm working on a driver for an ADSL modem which requi
On Aug 6 2007 17:53, Nathan Williams wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I'm working on a driver for an ADSL modem which requires the use of a
>binary library from the chipset manufacturer. All my source code is
>GPL, [...]
>I've given permission for the binary library file to be used with the GPL
>source code and be
> After asking the FSF for advice and working through their FAQ, I've
> given permission for the binary library file to be used with the GPL
> source code and be re-distributed with it.
Only the copyright holder can give additional permissions for a piece of
code so for such a change you must have
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