Qualcomm is prepared for their WiFi driver becoming self-aware and deciding it doesn't want to be GPL compliant: https://android.googlesource.com/kernel/msm/+/refs/tags/android-7.1.1_r0.20/drivers/staging/qcacld-2.0/Makefile#6 ….
They likely ended up with a non-GPL-compliant driver from Atheros and then open sourced + assigned copyright to Linux Foundation.
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It definitely dates back to before Qualcomm's acquisition of Atheros, based on the seemingly pre-VCS history kept in some headers.
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yeah there were weird things in QCA land during the transition period.
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