sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup

paradox ddkprog at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 17 22:45:30 UTC 2016


To porting need a license ? may be for USA or some other countrys but not for whole world

What you mean about porting ?

I mean, thats sourcecode can build and can generate a work binary
Create(generate) this binary from source or not, a user decides

I do not think that broadсom will seek and pursue all users who wish to use porting code

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On Fri, 11/18/16, Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com> wrote:

 Subject: Re: sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup
 To: "paradox" <ddkprog at yahoo.com>
 Cc: "freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
 Date: Friday, November 18, 2016, 12:26 AM
 
 no, we don't have a
 licence to port it open source and I don't have a
 licence to generate binaries for other
 people.
 
 
 
 -adrian
 
 
 On 17 November 2016 at 14:17,
 paradox via freebsd-wireless
 <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
 wrote:
 > what you mean ? if we have
 broadcom sourcecode, we can't porting and use it for
 self ?
 >
 >
 --------------------------------------------
 > On Fri, 11/18/16, Fehmi Noyan ISI <fnoyanisi at yahoo.com>
 wrote:
 >
 >  Subject:
 Re: sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup
 >  To: "paradox" <ddkprog at yahoo.com>,
 "Felix Friedlander" <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
 >  Cc: "freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org"
 <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
 >  Date: Friday, November 18, 2016, 12:03
 AM
 >
 >
 >  >>> the sourcecode can be
 porting to freebsd but
 >  not including
 to kernel
 >
 >  not
 quite sure about this... obviously enough, licences are
 >  there for a reason.
 >
 > 
 ________________________________
 > 
 From: paradox via freebsd-wireless <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
 >  To: Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
 >
 >  Cc: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
 >  Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 9:42
 AM
 >  Subject: Re: sourcecode of
 broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr
 >  sup
 >
 >
 >  if Anrian already have access to source
 code of broadcom,
 >  its great ! i
 don't known about it
 >
 >  about of licensing, the sourcecode can
 be porting to freebsd
 >  but not
 including to kernel, seems many people tobe
 >  enougth this
 >
 >
 > 
 --------------------------------------------
 >  On Thu, 11/17/16, Felix Friedlander
 <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
 >  wrote:
 >
 >  Subject: Re: sourcecode of broadcom
 drivers up to 2011 yr
 >  sup
 >  To: "paradox" <ddkprog at yahoo.com>
 >  Cc: freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org
 >  Date: Thursday, November 17, 2016, 10:32
 PM
 >
 >
 >  > On 18 Nov. 2016, at 05:36, paradox
 via
 >  freebsd-wireless
 >  <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
 >  wrote:
 >  >
 >  > seems all BCM WIFI PHY & MAC
 sourcecode of
 >  ABG/N/LP/NT/SSN
 >  > hope your can build it or take part
 for independ
 >  module
 >
 >  > MAC
 >  > https://github.com/elenril/VMG1312-B/tree/master/bcmdrivers/broadcom/net/wl/impl10/wl/sys
 >  > PHY
 >  > https://github.com/elenril/VMG1312-B/tree/master/bcmdrivers/broadcom/net/wl/impl10/wl/phy
 >
 >  There’s a
 difference between finding the code, and having
 >  a licence to use it… If I’m not
 mistaken Adrian already
 >  has access to
 the proprietary Broadcom driver through his
 >  work, it’s more of a licensing
 issue.
 >
 >  Still a
 nice find though, with this and the Cypress
 >  datasheets some things may become a bit
 easier.
 >
 >  --
 >  Felix Friedlander <felixphew0 at gmail.com>
 > 
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