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Clarify the licence terms a little more. It seems people think
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the firmware is (part, full) GPLv2, which is actually totally untrue.
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Adrian Chadd committed Mar 12, 2013
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Expand Up @@ -8,6 +8,26 @@ This is the firmware which resides in RAM on the AR7010/AR9271 NICs.
It is used by ath9k (Linux) and athn (OpenBSD) to provide wireless
services.

What licence is this covered by?
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The Qualcomm Atheros owned code is under the ISC licence.

The NOTICES.TXT file contains copyright notices for software which
this firmware release leverages.

There is some code that is based off of work done under contract
but is owned by Qualcomm Atheros; the original copyright statements
from that work are in NOTICES.TXT.

The Tensilica code (xtos/xtensa) is distributed with permission from
Tensilica, Inc., under the MIT licence.

There are three ECOS source files distributed under the terms of
the GPLv2, with a caveat that linking or using the source files does
not bring the rest of the binary under the GPLv2. Please read the
ECOS caveats in more detail.


Ok, what are those NICs?
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