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Date:      Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:21:05 -0700
From:      Simon Walton <simonw@lucent.com>
To:        "Justin T. Gibbs" <gibbs@scsiguy.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: IBM ACP modem driver
Message-ID:  <3ACE5D71.E93F4D21@lucent.com>
References:  <200104062314.f36NExs79479@aslan.scsiguy.com>

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"Justin T. Gibbs" wrote:
> 
> >   A couple of months ago IBM released the source to their linux modem
> >driver for the thinkpad 600 & 600E:
> 
> I was looking to port this stuff to -current, so I'd be interested
> in seeing your patches.  It would be nice if we could simply
> rewrite the kernel portion of the code to avoid the GPL license
> on the original IBM code.

   I think that would be a lot of work. Might be easier to persuade
IBM to release just the kernel portion under a BSD licence.

   I will bundle up my version of the driver and send it to you.

Simon

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