a new ebuild of the port of the version 5 of the hsflinmodem driver to the 2.6 kernel. This driver is NOT limited to 14.4. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Created attachment 67261 [details] the ebuild
isn't this a violation of Conexant's license? I quote: 5. Reverse-engineering. User hereby agrees not to reverse engineer, decompile, or disassemble the portions of this software provided solely in object form, nor attempt in any manner to obtain their source-code. 6. Redistribution. Redistribution of this software is only permitted for exact copies (without modification) of versions explicitly marked and officially released by Linuxant with the word "free" in their name. Redistribution or disclosure of other versions, derivatives or license key information is expressly prohibited without explicit written approval signed by an authorized Linuxant officer.
Maybe you should better distribute your changes as a patch toigether with an unmodified version of the hsflinmodem driver to not violate license,
I guess that some sort of reverse engineering has been used, which means ... guess what... exactly, license violation! the proclamed LICENSE of the attached ebuild is really hilarious :D If you write a hsf driver from scratch, I'd be happy to import it in the portage tree, but this is not acceptable.
(In reply to comment #4) > I guess that some sort of reverse engineering has been used, which means ... > guess what... exactly, license violation! > the proclamed LICENSE of the attached ebuild is really hilarious :D > > If you write a hsf driver from scratch, I'd be happy to import it in the portage > tree, but this is not acceptable. No reverse engineering was done. I have ported the version 5 of the driver. This version has a very different license. See http://dominia.org/djao/hsflinmodem/hsflinmodem-5.03.27mbsibeta02122600.tar.gz. The new, restrictive license was introduced in version 6. The only thing that I am not sure whether I can distribute is the .O files. Because of this the ebuild downloads them from the above URL.
Created attachment 67932 [details] new ebuild A new version of the ebuild
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