GPL License violation

[Jonathan Buzzard]

I received an email yesterday asking about the license of some code
found in FreeBSD to turn the fan on a Dell laptop on/off, the code in
question is shown below. I do not know exactly where in FreeBSD this
code lies, as I do not use FreeBSD. Neither do I want or should have to
go looking for it.

This code has been lifted verbatim out of drivers/char/i8k.c in Linux,
which in itself was a minor modification of code in
drivers/char/toshiba.c mdae by myself. This code dates back to January
1998, and was first included in Linux around 2.2.20. I am the original
author of this code, and it is clearly and only ever licensed under the
GPL. I must insist that it be removed forwith from FreeBSD.

JAB.


(cut along the line)
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	asm("pushl %%eax\n\t" \
       "movl 0(%%eax),%%edx\n\t" \
	   "push %%edx\n\t" \
	   "movl 4(%%eax),%%ebx\n\t" \
	   "movl 8(%%eax),%%ecx\n\t" \
	   "movl 12(%%eax),%%edx\n\t" \
	   "movl 16(%%eax),%%esi\n\t" \
	   "movl 20(%%eax),%%edi\n\t" \
	   "popl %%eax\n\t" \
	   "out %%al,$0xb2\n\t" \
	   "out %%al,$0x84\n\t" \
	   "xchgl %%eax,(%%esp)\n\t"
	   "movl %%ebx,4(%%eax)\n\t" \
	   "movl %%ecx,8(%%eax)\n\t" \
	   "movl %%edx,12(%%eax)\n\t" \
	   "movl %%esi,16(%%eax)\n\t" \
	   "movl %%edi,20(%%eax)\n\t" \
	   "popl %%edx\n\t" \
	   "movl %%edx,0(%%eax)\n\t" \
	   "lahf\n\t" \
	   "shrl $8,%%eax\n\t" \
	   "andl $1,%%eax\n" \
	    : "=a" (rc)
	    : "a" (regs)
	    : "%ebx", "%ecx", "%edx", "%esi", "%edi", "memory");


    if ((rc != 0) || ((regs->eax & 0xffff) == 0xffff) || (regs->eax ==
eax))
    {
    	return -1;
    }

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-- 
Jonathan A. Buzzard                 Email: jonathan (at) buzzard.me.uk
Northumberland, United Kingdom.       Tel: +44 1661-832195