[PATCH] b43/b43legacy - Credit Broadcom with enabling the development of the drivers

[David Woodhouse]

On Wed, 2010-09-22 at 07:05 +0200, Michael Büsch wrote:
> 
> +  Broadcom enabled the development of this driver, by providing all required
> +  hardware information in the form of binary software drivers.
> 
> Let me rephrase the comment a little bit. I will not change the
> meaning :)
> 
> +  Certain lawyers are wrong, and this driver proves it.
> +  http://tinyurl.com/ybl83uw
> 
> That's basically all it says. No more, no less. 

Fairly close :)

But it's a little more than that. It's more like:

 + I know you're scared that the world will end if you 'enable' this
 + driver in any way... but *look* -- you've actually been 'enabling'
 + if from the very beginning, and you haven't been eaten by a grue
 + yet. So please get over your stupid paranoia, and work with us
 + sensibly for once. Which would include:
 +  - letting us have permission to distribute the firmware.
 +  - giving us the odd hint about how to fix/improve the driver.
 +  - merging your new driver with the existing one, if appropriate.
 +  - etc.

It does us no harm to make it explicitly clear that the driver
development was 'enabled' by what Broadcom published. And if it has
*any* chance of showing the paranoid factions in Broadcom that their
fears are baseless, it has the potential to be helpful.

-- 
dwmw2