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Even better: licensed under the terms of the Expat license

Posted Sep 27, 2008 2:51 UTC (Sat) by bignose (subscriber, #40)
Parent article: Atheros releases ath5k HAL code

Excellent news. The chosen license isn't some legal-department special, either: it is (from reading the 'COPYRIGHT' file in the tarball) an equivalent of the simple, free terms of the Expat license <URL:http://www.jclark.com/xml/license.txt>.

Very classy, Atheros. Thank you!

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Err, that's the "ISC license"

Posted Sep 27, 2008 2:56 UTC (Sat) by bignose (subscriber, #40) [Link]

Whoops, I didn't RTFA well enough: the license is actually the ISC license <URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISC_license> (which is, in fact, equivalent to the Expat license, but differently worded).