Re: Release of Atheros 802.11abg HAL under the ISC

[Sam Leffler <sam@xxxxxxxxx>]

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 26, 2008 at 03:55:58PM -0700, Maxim Levitsky wrote:
>   
> > If I understand this correctly, madwifi is no longer a non-free driver?
> >     
>
> MadWifi is based on a proprietary HAL which is slightly different
> than this one, so no, its still non-free. The "free" drivers where
> I think focus should be put in is ath5k and ath9k as they are now both
> merged as part of the Linux kernel.
>   

The hal is not proprietary; Atheros just won't allow me to release it.  
And there are significant differences between the two code bases.

   Sam


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