{"id":147,"date":"2007-08-09T06:30:53","date_gmt":"2007-08-09T13:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanorser.com\/?p=147"},"modified":"2007-08-09T06:30:53","modified_gmt":"2007-08-09T13:30:53","slug":"20070809-clearance-for-new-linux-wireless-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/2007\/08\/09\/20070809-clearance-for-new-linux-wireless-driver\/","title":{"rendered":"2007\/08\/09  Clearance For New Linux Wireless Driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the story from Slashdot:<\/p>\n<p>An anonymous reader writes <em>&#8220;The Software Freedom Law Center has given <a href=\"http:\/\/www.softwarefreedom.org\/news\/2007\/jul\/31\/openhal\/\">legal clearance to OpenHAL<\/a>, a wireless component for Linux, based on their pro-bono review of the code. This announcement dispels allegations of infringement on Atheros&#8217; proprietary HAL software. &#8216;We believe that this outcome will clear the way for eventual acceptance of a new wireless driver into the Linux kernel,&#8217; said John Linville, the Linux kernel maintainer for wireless networking.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the story from Slashdot: An anonymous reader writes &#8220;The Software Freedom Law Center has given legal clearance to OpenHAL, a wireless component for Linux, based on their pro-bono review of the code. This announcement dispels allegations of infringement on Atheros&#8217; proprietary HAL software. &#8216;We believe that this outcome will clear the way for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ryanorser.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}