From nobody Sun Oct 20 22:22:13 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 4XWtGt2kYGz5ZrVZ for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:22:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp) Received: from www121.sakura.ne.jp (www121.sakura.ne.jp [153.125.133.21]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4XWtGs38tSz4tvS for ; Sun, 20 Oct 2024 22:22:28 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp) Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; none Received: from kalamity.joker.local (123-1-21-232.area1b.commufa.jp [123.1.21.232]) (authenticated bits=0) by www121.sakura.ne.jp (8.17.1/8.17.1/[SAKURA-WEB]/20201212) with ESMTPA id 49KMMENs035239; Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:22:14 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=simple/simple; d=dec.sakura.ne.jp; s=s2405; t=1729462934; bh=9YrPzyJQ7LTwHAj+Ukmd0WiKC955Umb9k+K2fZ4/zfQ=; h=Date:From:To:Cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:References; b=MySaB0OekOfJ0Pq42f/qjd6eGsK1MzNkkqGgbtsmN+aDIJyihih7AURVWW6wwQNY0 2yHYDDi41wfKuwCfTRrpdTqb0ydn3BxUD4vKR/emm2yj3f1j0Wespi/VsYyOwgz2+J 6Dv+d/GiIGdKfkBkoS6WrpULWk2YS6nuCxRiFym4= Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:22:13 +0900 From: Tomoaki AOKI To: Cy Schubert Cc: Artem Hevorhian , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help wanted on porting a wifi library from Linux to FreeBSD Message-Id: <20241021072213.d372a39793a9564030a31085@dec.sakura.ne.jp> In-Reply-To: <20241020194105.87D67216@slippy.cwsent.com> References: <20241020194105.87D67216@slippy.cwsent.com> Organization: Junchoon corps X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.7.0 (GTK+ 2.24.33; amd64-portbld-freebsd14.1) 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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:7684, ipnet:153.125.128.0/18, country:JP] X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 4XWtGs38tSz4tvS X-Spamd-Bar: ---- On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:41:05 -0700 Cy Schubert wrote: > In message 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)? > -- > Cheers, > Cy Schubert > FreeBSD UNIX: Web: https://FreeBSD.org > NTP: Web: https://nwtime.org > > e^(i*pi)+1=0 -- Tomoaki AOKI