Re: ipw3945 status

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On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 09:06 +0300, Alon Bar-Lev wrote:
> On 7/31/06, Kasper Sandberg <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I entirely agree that this should not be merged, those will accept these
> > kindof things, can use intels out of tree driver.
> >
> > i sincerely hope for a forked/rewritten driver which does not depend on
> > closed userspace daemons.
> 
> I personally think that this also violates the GPL license...
> The GPL part cannot stand by it-self and require none GPLed component
> in order to make it work.
> 
> The fact that the regularity daemon work using external sysfs
> interface without linkage requirements does not escape derived work in
> this case.
i tend to agree, however if a generic interface was created for
"regulatory daemons" this may be different, but if what i hear is true,
the intel daemon does more than that, and then, well...

> 
> Best Regards,
> Alon Bar-Lev
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