Licensing wlc_phy_radio.h and brcm80211 (was: [PATCH 3/3] b43: N-PHY: add 2055 radio regs)

Rafał Miłecki zajec5 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 14 12:40:14 EDT 2010


W dniu 11 października 2010 18:24 użytkownik Gábor Stefanik
<netrolller.3d at gmail.com> napisał:
> Doesn't brcm80211 contain register names for B2055?

I've checked brcm80211 and noticed defines in
drivers/staging/brcm80211/phy/wlc_phy_radio.h.

Whole brcm80211 driver is licensed as:
MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL");

Mentioned file contains following comments:
+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2010 Broadcom Corporation
+ *
+ * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or distribute this software for any
+ * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
+ * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.

Our b43 driver is licensed as:
MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
and I am not sure if permission above is actually GPL-compatible. The
best option would be to add defines from wlc_phy_radio.h and include
Broadcom's copyright. However comment above wants us to include info
about free copying/modifying/using which is not GPL-compatible.

Is there any way to solve this issue?

-- 
Rafał



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