alt Hacker News> 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.
> 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)