Re: d80211: ANNOUNCE: DadWifi, a port of MadWifi to d80211

[Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>]

On Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:14:29 -0700
David Kimdon <david.kimdon@devicescape.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> DadWifi is a port of MadWifi to the d80211 stack.  It works now in
> managed and monitor mode, lightly tested.  Any card supported by
> MadWifi should be supported by DadWifi [1].  This allows a large
> number of cards to now take advantage of the d80211 stack.
> 
> DadWifi uses the same (binary only) hal as MadWifi and reuses much of
> the initialization, descriptor and interrupt processing code.
> 
> There is a subversion repository and mailing list available [2] for
> those wishing to try it out or help with development.
> 
> -David
> 
> 
> [1] : http://madwifi.org/wiki/Compatibility
> [2] : https://devicescape.org/projects/dadwifi/

I would consider this a BAD thing. You are creating a derived work
out of GPL and non-GPL software. This actually will hurt the possible acceptance
of the d80211 stack into the mainline kernel.

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