From nobody Mon Oct 21 00:17:25 2024 X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mlmmj.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4XWwqY5nYTz5ZxqD for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:17:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cy.schubert@cschubert.com) Received: from omta002.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net (omta002.cacentral1.a.cloudfilter.net [3.97.99.33]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (Client CN "Client", Issuer "CA" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4XWwqY1gf8z53SR for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:17:29 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cy.schubert@cschubert.com) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from shw-obgw-4004a.ext.cloudfilter.net ([10.228.9.227]) by cmsmtp with ESMTPS id 2bBEtPjvUMArN2g6xtzd70; Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:17:27 +0000 Received: from spqr.komquats.com ([70.66.152.170]) by cmsmtp with ESMTPSA id 2g6vtM5JLKHV82g6wt5nJa; Mon, 21 Oct 2024 00:17:27 +0000 X-Auth-User: cschuber X-Authority-Analysis: v=2.4 cv=XeEqz555 c=1 sm=1 tr=0 ts=67159d97 a=y8EK/9tc/U6QY+pUhnbtgQ==:117 a=y8EK/9tc/U6QY+pUhnbtgQ==:17 a=kj9zAlcOel0A:10 a=DAUX931o1VcA:10 a=YxBL1-UpAAAA:8 a=NEAV23lmAAAA:8 a=6I5d2MoRAAAA:8 a=EkcXrb_YAAAA:8 a=N3OrklvN2ZZdH3oL9h8A:9 a=CjuIK1q_8ugA:10 a=Ia-lj3WSrqcvXOmTRaiG:22 a=LK5xJRSDVpKd5WXXoEvA:22 Received: from slippy.cwsent.com (slippy [10.1.1.91]) by spqr.komquats.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4110A47F; Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:17:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: by slippy.cwsent.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 132A1393; Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:17:25 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: exmh version 2.9.0 11/07/2018 with nmh-1.8+dev Reply-to: Cy Schubert From: Cy Schubert X-os: FreeBSD X-Sender: cy@cwsent.com X-URL: http://www.cschubert.com/ To: Tomoaki AOKI cc: Cy Schubert , Artem Hevorhian , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help wanted on porting a wifi library from Linux to FreeBSD In-reply-to: <20241021072213.d372a39793a9564030a31085@dec.sakura.ne.jp> References: <20241020194105.87D67216@slippy.cwsent.com> <20241021072213.d372a39793a9564030a31085@dec.sakura.ne.jp> Comments: In-reply-to Tomoaki AOKI message dated "Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:22:13 +0900." List-Id: Technical discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Archive: https://lists.freebsd.org/archives/freebsd-hackers List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:17:25 -0700 Message-Id: <20241021001725.132A1393@slippy.cwsent.com> X-CMAE-Envelope: MS4xfAMP2+HOE+vD3GSZ20CphztqXY7Oz40woSQRlh1UDhs1YRSE5Y8M30Xv6CdRXliaZVWlF8Lf9ER8CNz+V6SSAzYVHjzxSQgzjzAKEHrNWdan27hrYie5 TjEXi5GOaPKaDQK4LKCmctUeu4An5bGQ1GPt49UnTpvvyAr3Hp51pei4BV5wzfN/Q1tUq/izPy7Pv/ZAdVkP+G1dD4SV8lIyIsoMiF0iJ/ault4jQdRd+aUD BptNIXmFuR0hZXLyp5wiiH3lqBx+L3Chx25NUJm1rcsF8G59arLL+gzajpfarh9x X-Rspamd-Pre-Result: action=no action; module=replies; Message is reply to one we originated X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-4.00 / 15.00]; REPLY(-4.00)[]; ASN(0.00)[asn:16509, ipnet:3.96.0.0/15, country:US] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4XWwqY1gf8z53SR X-Spamd-Bar: ---- In message <20241021072213.d372a39793a9564030a31085@dec.sakura.ne.jp>, Tomoaki AOKI writes: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:41:05 -0700 > Cy Schubert wrote: > > > In message c > > om> > > , Artem Hevorhian writes: > > > > > > https://github.com/bmegli/wifi-scan > > > > > > Here it is. It uses nl80211.h header. I think we should do the same on > > > FreeBSD. Mentorship is required for me to work on it. Please help me with > > > this. > > > > Porting GPL code to FreeBSD is not a good idea. A rewrite under a BSD > > license would work though. > > Or requesting and acquiring for ALL authors of ALL needed files to be > BSD-compatiblly licensed (including dual or more licenced in conjunction > with GPL)? Dual licensing is ok. but one of the licenses must be BSD as opposed to BSD-compatibility. BSD is compatible with GPL but many users of FreeBSD are afraid that GPL in FreeBSD will make it GPL and therefore useless for their purposes. BSD-compatibility is not enough. It should also be BSD licensed. -- Cheers, Cy Schubert FreeBSD UNIX: Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: Web: https://nwtime.org e^(i*pi)+1=0