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#572
Originally Posted by smithyduk View Post
Silly question but why are neopwn patching the wl1251's driver when the source is availible under GPL?

http://www.koders.com/c/fid6F7C1BB28...734.aspx?s=crc

Or am I missing somthing apart from sleep? :-)
I have a similar question. Since the original is under GPL, neopwn's author (distributor? let just call him neopwn), is required by the license (and moral obligation of free software), to (allow to) distribute the source to anyon he ships the binary to. Has anyone that bought the closed beta received the source of the patched driver?
This is critical! Since when (if?) the beta becomes open (or any other means of making the distribution bigger) we will need the source to make sure this lives on, for meego/android/titan's kernel/etc...

So, could anyone that is in the closed beta ask for the source? Don't (necessarily) distribute it, just make sure neopwn agrees to give it out so it will be available eventually.