HEADSUP: urtw(4) to be committed soon

Brooks Davis brooks at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 19 09:07:34 PST 2009


On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:35:24PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 19 Jan 2009, Weongyo Jeong wrote:
> 
>> I would like to commit urtw(4) driver for supporting Realtek's 8187L 
>> wireless chipset based on USB into HEAD by the end of the week if there 
>> are no objections.  And the license of files would be as follows that 
>> AFAIK it's based on OpenBSD's template license file:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/committers-guide/pref-license.html

This file is outdated.  While this remains our prefered license, the current
OpenBSD prefered license is the ISC licesed which is allowed by the license
policy we published to developers last year.  We should probably replace this
page with that policy.

-- Brooks

>> /*-
>> * Copyright (c) 2008 Weongyo Jeong <weongyo at FreeBSD.org>
>> *
>> * Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
>> * purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
>> * copyright notice and this permission notice appear in all copies.
>> *
>> * THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS" AND THE AUTHOR DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES
>> * WITH REGARD TO THIS SOFTWARE INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF
>> * MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE FOR
>> * ANY SPECIAL, DIRECT, INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
>> * WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
>> * ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
>> * OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
>> */
>> 
>> Because I'm not a lawyer it'd definitely fail to answer about your
>> detailed questions.  Just one thing I want to is that it's okay if it's
>> enough to use in *BSD, OpenSolaris and etc.  Not want to go into
>> troubles.  :-)
>> 
>> I'm looking for a person to port from USB to NEWUSB and if you want to
>> test you can find the sources at:
>> 
>> 	http://people.freebsd.org/~weongyo/urtw_20090119.tar.gz
>> 
>> regards,
>> Weongyo Jeong
>> 
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