The SFLC recently recommended that ath5k development should be
continued from what is currently in the wireless-legacy git
repository. In addition its existence has caused some confusion
regarding the licensing situation of ath5k. To avoid further
confusion and since the branch is useless anyway it gets removed
now.
Please note that the ath5k/ subdirectory at root-level of our
repository will soon be freshly initialised from what is in the
wireless-2.6 git repository. No code of the old ath5k branch will
occur in future changesets. No more GPL-licensed ath5k code in
here.
See also:
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/news/2007/sep/27/wireless-review/