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Broadcom open sources wireless drivers

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Man, that article certainly is ungrateful. Broadcom does something we can all accept as "good", and kragil's response is "it's about time"?

No joke - ironic from the Linux crowd to bash how timely some corp releases their proprietary data.

The person writing the article has been in industry and realises what the proverbial "red tape" is, right?

Duplicate of http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1677832. Mine had original source as well.

finally, a step in the right direction. These chipsets are in wide use, i have jumped through the binary-blob-download hoop many times in the past. For people wondering about the Linux community's attitude towards Broadcom: They certainly took a long time and much "encouragement" to realize the benefit of opening their drivers.

I didn't bother to dig deeper into this, but, does someone know under what license the code has been released?

Here's the comment from one of the source files:

  /*
   * Copyright (c) 2010 Broadcom Corporation
   *
   * Permission to use, copy, modify, and/or 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.
   */

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