Interest or other interest in any intellectual property rights relating to Apart from the license rightsĮxpressly set forth in this Agreement, Broadcom does not grant and Licenseeĭoes not receive any ownership right, title or interest nor any security Nothing magical, it is called a license, which you agreed to when you obtained the product.įor an example of typical Broadcom licenses, Ģ.6. People would like to have you believe there is some magical legal framework you are violating
Technical deficiencies could be fixed, long term, with lots of efforts going in - legal complications can't, they hit a stone wall and will taint the driver forever (look at the history behind tiacx/ acx100 and its attempts of going mainline).
Yes, someone, sometime ago, may have gotten them mostly working (in case of the RealTek vendor drivers you'll see multiple competing github repos, each with their own share of bugs), but without them behaving like a proper mainline driver (and them actually being mainline or on the road towards mainline), their future fate is doomed anyways - now adding legal complications on top means throwing a spanner into it from the get go. RealTek staging or -vendor drivers, RaLink rt3883 iNIC - some with a 'perhaps okayish, fingers crossed, eyes closed' legal status like Lantiq XWAY WAVE300), but where the source is so ugly that they're never going to be merged mainline - look at their status. We already have a couple of drivers which have no legal issues (e.g. They already have issues with their hardware being exploited and their support is really not that great to be totally honest with a reply like that they should get the business.Įven in a hypothetical scenario where you'd be able to get hold of these drivers in some way and would actually get it working (with a modern kernel, so all dandy from a functional point of view) - what then? No one besides yourself would touch that driver with a ten foot pole, because of its legal status, meaning you'd have to 'maintain' (aka keep it running, somehow) forever - that's not going to work longer term.
" Its a total cop out and their stuff should be leaked. And if they don't listen like their statement says " Don't buy broadcom hardware. If broadcom don't play nice with the public the public should demand they do. Possibly using broadpwn or some other exploit to get the in depth workings of things.
There should be zero legal issues on disassembly and upgrade its really no different than say modification of other devices like phones and such to an extent it features much of the same hardware. I see zero reasons why there should be anything preventing someone from dumping information using some exploit software or hardware. The whole broadcom issue should be remedied imho. I may not have the knowledge or the time at current but still there are billions of people out there I'm sure someone may. There are some who do things because they in fact are not easy. Nothing is impossible I realize some things are hard and often people shy away from difficult things for numerous reasons. Hundreds of hacks in broadcoms 2.6.x kernel I wonder why hundreds of hacks are needed?
Telling the truth it is all new to me I set out to possibly make a build for the EA6500v1 and was shut down at the whole broadcom FOSS thing. We are a community I may not be able to do much as an individual but as a community anything is possible.