Hello hackers :) I'm doing an academic project at the Technion, which relates to wireless networking. My host wants to use the project as a base for a free-beer application, but is not willing - at least at this point - to make the source code available to everyone.
Now, to utilize wireless networking in Linux, the sensible path seems to be along iwconfig, which uses iwlib, which in turn uses ioctl calls to communicate with the wireless extensions in the Linux kernel. Using iwconfig directly with "system" calls is most likely out of the question, for being slow, unclean, and perhaps of changing interface. Using iwlib directly would be a far better option - but it's licensed under the GPL, and AFAIK linking against a library counts as 'distributing' it, which would force our software to be under the GPL. Using ioctl calls directly seems to be in the clear, but we might have to use hacks from libiw, which would, again, be problematic... Can anyone help make the legal situation here clearer? -- Protect your digital freedom and privacy, eliminate DRM, learn more at http://www.defectivebydesign.org/what_is_drm Ohad Lutzky --------------------------------------------------------------------- Haifa Linux Club Mailing List (http://www.haifux.org) To unsub send an empty message to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
