[maemo-developers] Corporate ownership of open source projects [LWN]

[From: Kalle Valo]

"ext Marcin Juszkiewicz" <openembedded at haerwu.biz> writes:

>> Finally we have the WLAN module and FW, which are again developed under
>> NDA and it's quite unlikely that the manufacturer is willing to release
>> the source.
>
> Wlan situation was wrong from beginning - when 770 was released. N8x0 just 
> use newer version of 770 driver. Too bad that no one was working on it to 
> make it work with standard linux wlan components like WPA supplicant. 

Lauro Venancio wrote a patch to support wpa_supplicant:

https://garage.maemo.org/pipermail/cx3110x-devel/2007-November/000005.html

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Kalle Valo