Re: Help wanted on porting a wifi library from Linux to FreeBSD

On 10/20/24 15:59, Warner Losh wrote:
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> On Sun, Oct 20, 2024, 2:46 PM Jason Bacon <bacon4000@gmail.com 
> <mailto:bacon4000@gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     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.

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