Specifications of Qualcomm Atheros network cards

[Klakap]

After much searching for usable specifications of Atheros network cards, I found this page: https://github.com/Deoptim/atheros/tree/master It seems that here are all (or almost all) specifications, and they contains informations that driver developer needs to write a functional driver, not just some info about circuits or similar things. However there is one problem. These files are marked as “COMPANY CONFIDENTIAL”, so for me it feels like existence of these files on public place/using these files is illegal. However if it would be somehow possible to use them, it would be big help for implementing drivers for Atheros cards (what would include wireless connection). So I would like to at least ask more experienced people, if it is really illegal to use these files, or is there maybe some way to use them without making contract with company?

[zaval]

The answer is "pfff, come on, just use it".

[rdos]

I'd even claim "download quickly before it's gone". I searched for this to a while ago but couldn't find it. Apparently, this company don't want people to write drivers, rather prefer to do this themselves for Windows and possibly Linux. This typically leads to poor drivers since hardware developers are not device driver experts.