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Re: issue on Attansic Technology L1 network card and OpenBSD

From: Stuart Henderson (stuspacehopper.org)
Date: Fri May 02 2008 - 06:54:44 CDT


On 2008-05-02, Jonathan Schleifer <js-openbsdwebkeks.org> wrote:
> Hm, you really should try talk to the Linux guys.
> I'm a bit astonished about Attansic's/Atheros' behaviour as even on my
> Asus driver CD, there is source code for a driver for that chip, IIRC it
> was even commented so you don't have only magic numbers.
> If you're interested in that code, I'll search my Asus driver CD and
> look if the license allows me to publish that files, IIRC it was GPL'd.

From a brief look at mailing list posts, it looks like they had no
alternative but releasing under GPL after somebody noticed the number
of similarities between it and e1000 (linux Intel gig ethernet driver).