ar9300_devid.h license restricts modification

[Adrian Chadd]

I missed these; they're BSD licenced.



-adrian


On 3 November 2014 21:19, Xin Li <delphij at delphij.net> wrote:
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> Adding Adrian Chadd (who imported the file into FreeBSD) and Sam
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> On 11/3/14 8:09 PM, Riley Baird wrote:
>> Hi!
>>
>> The license of two files in the ath_hal driver appears to restrict
>> modification. The two files are:
>> /sys/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9003/ar9300_devid.h
>> /sys/contrib/dev/ath/ath_hal/ar9300/ar9300_devid.h
>>
> [...]
>>
>> There is a discussion about this going on at Debian:
>> https://bugs.debian.org/767583
>
> A quick glance of the two files suggests that they are not
> (disclaimer: I am not a lawyer and this is purely layman opinion)
> copyrightable because they are purely constant definitions, which are
> non-copyrightable _facts_ after all.
>
> However, it would be nice if we can confirm with Qualcomm.
>
> Cheers,
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