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yjftsjthsd-h | 6 days ago

> Manufacturer/vendor did not provided open source driver with real freedom license (BSD/MIT/...)

Article says,

> Brcmfmac is a Linux driver (ISC licence) for set of FullMAC chips from Broadcom

I don't feel like looking to see where the Linux driver came from, but someone provided a permissively-licensed driver.

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swiftcoder|5 days ago

> I don't feel like looking to see where the Linux driver came from

It's originally from Broadcom themselves. A lot of Broadcom hardware runs linux natively (i.e. mobile and embedded CPUs), and a ton more of it ships in linux-adjacent devices (routers, android devices, etc)