“It is my pleasure to announce that the SFLC has assisted the
ar5k developers in evaluating the development history of Reyk
Floeter’s OpenBSD reverse-engineered Atheros HAL, ar5k. SFLC’s
assessment leads to the conclusion that free software developers
should not be worried about using/extending ar5k or porting ar5k to
other platforms.“In the past there were serious questions raised and even dire
warnings made about ar5k’s copyright status…”
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