Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:34:53 -0500 From: Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Help wanted on porting a wifi library from Linux to FreeBSD Message-ID: <579931fb-3ef5-46b0-983e-0d63950cd261@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfrD51-Gy3vKJp-0J%2BXtKKjQG9XAH7wtNeeZLKXpy5KmHw@mail.gmail.com> References: <CA%2BAExUT4fM%2Bp85Shzp1xFFOrabS_FDwWYSbUJjmka6%2BROOJnLw@mail.gmail.com> <20241020194105.87D67216@slippy.cwsent.com> <cbc9cd34-3d28-437d-85cc-1537addf0f75@gmail.com> <CANCZdfrD51-Gy3vKJp-0J%2BXtKKjQG9XAH7wtNeeZLKXpy5KmHw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 10/20/24 15:59, Warner Losh wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 2:46 PM Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com > <mailto:bacon4000@gmail.com>> wrote: > > On 10/20/24 14:41, Cy Schubert wrote: > > In message > <CA+AExUT4fM+p85Shzp1xFFOrabS_FDwWYSbUJjmka6+ROOJnLw@mail.gmail.c > > om> > > , Artem Hevorhian writes: > >> > >> https://github.com/bmegli/wifi-scan <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. > > Porting GPL code into the FreeBSD base is undesirable, but is there any > reason this could not reside in ports? > > > Ports are fine as GPL Right, but the question was would wifi-scan work well as a port vs part of base. -- Life is a game. Play hard. Play fair. Have fun.
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