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

Let me rephrase.

I would like to modernize the wifi stack so that ioctls are not used
anymore in ifconfig scan operation, for example. I would like to use
netlink instead.

пн, 21 жовт. 2024, 14:29 користувач Tomoaki AOKI <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
пише:

> On Sun, 20 Oct 2024 17:17:25 -0700
> Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> It depends on from which side of view.
> Let's limit "can we borrow any code without violating its license?"
> here.
>
> From the point of view from GPL'ed software, BSD license is
> 100% compatible.
>
> OTOH, from the point of view from BSD licensed software, GPL is
> incompatible (because BSD license does not force licensees to make
> their modified/added codes to be GPL'ed).
>
> And FreeBSD has, for example, CDDL'ed codes like OpenZFS in tree,
> without any action to delete them, unlile GPL'ed ones.
>
> This is, (my understanding is) because CDDL is considered as
> BSD-compatible license. There are more, for example, MIT license and so
> on.
>
> So any of BSD-compatible license is/are included in multiple licenses
> of the codes, FreeBSD can introduce it in tree.
>
> This is my guess.
>
> > --
> > Cheers,
> > Cy Schubert <Cy.Schubert@cschubert.com>
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> >
> >                       e^(i*pi)+1=0
>
>
> --
> Tomoaki AOKI    <junchoon@dec.sakura.ne.jp>
>