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dhon_today at 1:43 AM1 replyview on HN

In this case though, the new driver has the same license as the project it was based on and explicitly credits the original project

  ISC License
  
  Copyright (c) 2010-2022 Broadcom Corporation
  Copyright (c) brcmfmac-freebsd contributors
  
  Based on the Linux brcmfmac driver.

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josephgtoday at 2:13 AM

This surprised me - but sure enough, they're right. The linux brcmfmac driver is ISC licensed:

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/net/wi...

// SPDX-License-Identifier: ISC