21 Feb
2007
21 Feb
'07
5:29 p.m.
On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:21, Bradley Hook wrote:
Luke -Jr wrote:
Warning: 'madwifi' is not GPL-compatible; as such, it is illegal and will taint your kernel.
From the COPYRIGHT file in the madwifi tarball:
- Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
- GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free
- Software Foundation.
Indeed, but that is just a wrapper. This GPL'd wrapper is *distributed along with* a binary blob it links to which is *specifically* not GPL. madwifi-0.9.2.1/hal/COPYRIGHT: All files contained in this distribution are covered by the following copyright unless explicitly identified otherwise. Note that this copyright does _NOT_ contain a "or GPL" clause and does _NOT_ permit redistribution with changes.