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Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer Source Is Released

Posted by kdawson on from the no-blobs-here dept.

chrb writes "With the recent discussion here on proprietary blobs in the Linux kernel, it's nice to see that today Sam Leffler has released the source for the Atheros Hardware Abstraction Layer under the ISC license, which is both GPL and BSD compatible. The Atheros chipset is used in many laptops, so this is another important step towards running a completely free distribution."

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  1. DVD and Blu-ray by NinthAgendaDotCom · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Cool. Now we need free DVD and Blu-ray decryption. That always made me feel funny when I would try Linux. Totally free OS... but if you want to watch DVDs, you download an illegal DVD decrypter. (I know there are legal ones you can pay for.)

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