Date: 03 May 2001 11:07:00 +0100 From: Wayne Pascoe <wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk> To: Claude Buisson <ubc@paris.framatome.fr> Cc: <questions@freebsd.org>, <stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FYI: GPL Linux driver for Alcatel ADSL SpeedTouch USB Message-ID: <m1oftau4or.fsf@zaphod.realtime.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105031116310.81817-100000@eve.framatome.fr> References: <Pine.BSF.4.33.0105031116310.81817-100000@eve.framatome.fr>
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Claude Buisson <ubc@paris.framatome.fr> writes: > Hello, > > As I have not seen this info on a FreeBSD list, I think it could be > useful to know that there exists an Open Source (GPL) Linux driver > for the Alcatel ADSL SpeedTouch USB modem being developed outside Alcatel > (no kernel patch nor special library needed). Actually, your information is incorrect on several fronts. For starters only a portion of the driver is open source under the GPL licence. The majority ( and most of the important bits) are in a closed source module. This driver also (from what I've read so far) only works under the 2.4 kernel series. <RANT> This is not an open sourced driver and the myth that it is, should not be perpetuated. If it were true open source, there would be a driver for FreeBSD by now, because we would have had a starting point. Companies that release these kinds of drivers for GNU/Linux and then claim to be heroes of the revolution just annoy me. At least Alcatel didn't brag about it. They just did it to get people off their back :) </RANT> -- - Wayne Pascoe E-mail: wayne.pascoe@realtime.co.uk Phone : +44 (0) 20 7544 4668 Mobile: +44 (0) 788 431 1675 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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