Re: IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver and GPL

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> I'm trying to get "IPWireless 3G PCMCIA" to work under linux. There
> are two problems:
> 
> * first, only available version is for 2.6.12, and fixes to make it
> compile under 2.6.16 don't seem to be trivial
> 
> What is worse,
> 
> /*
>  * IPWireless 3G PCMCIA Network Driver
>  *
>  *   by Stephen Blackheath <stephen@blacksapphire.com>,
>  *      Ben Martel <benm@symmetric.co.nz>
>  *
>  * Copyrighted as follows:
>  *   Copyright (C) 2004 by Symmetric Systems Ltd (NZ)
>  */
> 
> ...so I'm not even allowed to fix it. I believe that driver should be
> GPLed -- it is unusable without pcmcia packages after all.

Uhuh, I was blind, there's MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") there, so all should
be fine. So... there are no legal problems and it is all "simple
matter of programming". Now... if someone lent me the PCMCIA/SIM
combination for a month, I guess I should be able to get it going in
2.6.16, and I should be able to get it into shape for mainline, too...

									Pavel
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