From owner-freebsd-hackers Fri Apr 6 17:21:11 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from drawbridge.ascend.com (drawbridge.ascend.com [198.4.92.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6350537B424 for ; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simonw@lucent.com) Received: from fw-ext.ascend.com (fw-ext [198.4.92.5]) by drawbridge.ascend.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id RAA20314; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:20:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from russet.ascend.com by fw-ext.ascend.com via smtpd (for drawbridge.ascend.com [198.4.92.1]) with SMTP; 7 Apr 2001 00:21:07 UT Received: from wopr.eng.ascend.com (wopr.eng.ascend.com [206.65.212.178]) by russet.ascend.com (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA08267; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from simonw-sun (simonw-sun.eng.ascend.com [135.140.26.74]) by wopr.eng.ascend.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id RAA11789; Fri, 6 Apr 2001 17:21:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from eng.ascend.com by eng.ascend.com Message-ID: <3ACE5D71.E93F4D21@lucent.com> Date: Fri, 06 Apr 2001 17:21:05 -0700 From: Simon Walton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.6 sun4u) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Justin T. Gibbs" Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: IBM ACP modem driver References: <200104062314.f36NExs79479@aslan.scsiguy.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message