Re: Now Apple has it's winmodem ;(
>On Fri, Nov 30, 2001 at 11:41:30AM +0100, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
>> >Has anyone seen something about softmodems in Darwin code ?
>>
>> Apple don't own the source for this driver, I already asked them...
>>
>> All we can do is manage to get in touch with conexant to make sure
>> they will build a linux/ppc driver or let one of us do it.
>
>Please at least ASK them if they'll GPL the driver before just assuming
>that they won't, and letting them that is legitimate for them to release
>a proprietary soft modem driver.
So far (according to Alan Cox), Conexant is well known for never
letting a singel line of source code go out. I think when you
purchase their chipset, you don't even get the source of the
modem code, just a licence to a binary object file.
>You might mention that the Linux kernel is not supported by the kernel
>developers when a non-free module is present, which will result in lower
>popularity for the iBook, which means fewer people buying iBooks, which
>means fewer machines sold for Conexant to get a cut of.
Conexant will probably not care here... Apple might but I doubt.
>Speaking of taint, my kernel is complaining about the i2c-keywest driver
>not having a license. Is this resolved in your kernel tree?
I have to check, thanks for pointing out.
Ben.
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