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Date:      Thu, 25 Oct 2001 00:25:38 +0200
From:      Marko Zec <zec@tel.fer.hr>
To:        Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
Cc:        net@freebsd.org, hackers@freebsd.org, jlemon@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: fxp patch - bundling receive interrupts
Message-ID:  <3BD73FE2.20A464A2@tel.fer.hr>
References:  <20011024165611.F78388-100000@achilles.silby.com>

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Mike Silbersack wrote:

> That being said, I thought I should check on one thing:  In your original
> post, you mentioned that these techniques came from the linux drive for
> these cards.  In the process of writing this patch, did you copy any
> section of code from the Linux driver?  If possible, it would be best to
> avoid any GPL entanglements.

I used the microcode from Intel's proprietary Linux driver, which is
definetely not GPL'ed. I'm not nearly a copyright expert, but it seems to me
that Intel put a BSD-like copyrihght on mentioned sources. Intel's copyright
is included in rcvbundle.h, so I hope some of BSD "legals" can check on that,
and if in any doubt the simplest thing to do would be asking Intel for their
position before including the code in a official distributon.

Marko


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