Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:17:25 -0700 From: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> To: Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp> Cc: Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>, Artem Hevorhian <artemhevorhian@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Help wanted on porting a wifi library from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <20241021001725.132A1393@slippy.cwsent.com> In-Reply-To: <20241021072213.d372a39793a9564030a31085@dec.sakura.ne.jp> References: <CA%2BAExUT4fM%2Bp85Shzp1xFFOrabS_FDwWYSbUJjmka6%2BROOJnLw@mail.gmail.com> <20241020194105.87D67216@slippy.cwsent.com> <20241021072213.d372a39793a9564030a31085@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
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In message <20241021072213.d372a39793a9564030a31085@dec.sakura.ne.jp>, Tomoaki AOKI writes: > On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 12:41:05 -0700 > Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote: > > > In message <CA+AExUT4fM+p85Shzp1xFFOrabS_FDwWYSbUJjmka6+ROOJnLw@mail.gmail. > 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 <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> FreeBSD UNIX: <cy@FreeBSD.org> Web: https://FreeBSD.org NTP: <cy@nwtime.org> Web: https://nwtime.org e^(i*pi)+1=0
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