sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup

Thu Nov 17 23:03:10 UTC 2016

>> To porting need a license ? may be for USA or some other countrys but not for whole world
To port any software, the original work should allow you to do so. This is called "Free Software License", which is different than "Open Source". Apparently, the Broadcom source files give no permission to third parties for redistribution/modification of the work.

When you say "porting to FreeBSD", my interpretation of the phrase is "making the code or resulting binary work under FreeBSD". Below is what Wikipedia understands from "porting"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porting

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

Aye, they sure can "sue" somebody, not necessarily the users though. Have you heard about "AT&T Lawsuit" before?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FreeBSD#Lawsuit

There is also a nice reading here (if you are interested in a bit of UNIX history)
https://www.amazon.com/Daemon-Gnu-Penguin-Peter-Salus/dp/097903423X

----- Original Message -----
From: paradox via freebsd-wireless <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
To: paradox <ddkprog at yahoo.com>; Adrian Chadd <adrian.chadd at gmail.com>
Cc: "freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org" <freebsd-wireless at freebsd.org>
Sent: Friday, November 18, 2016 11:42 AM
Subject: Re: sourcecode of broadcom drivers up to 2011 yr sup

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 ?
>
>
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> 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
>
>
> 
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>  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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