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pritambaral / hostapd-rtl871xdrv

Hostapd driver for RTL8188{C|CU|CUS} wifi chips.
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Added GPLv2 License as of README.md #9

Closed sspreitzer closed 1 year ago

pritambaral commented 8 years ago

I don't think a separate file to cite the license is needed, since it is already mentioned in the README, but I don't mind it.

However, we should stick to upstream's (Realtek's) conventions, who stuck to their upstream's (hostap's) convention of naming the file COPYING, and who dual licensed their (pre-2012) releases under BSD and GPLv2. Also, I do not think we need to cite the full license text.

Have a look upstream: https://w1.fi/cgit/hostap/tree/COPYING

sspreitzer commented 8 years ago

File renamed to COPYING. Technically wise I agree with your opinion. Legal wise I would like to have a copy of the license agreement with the source code bundle. This to satisfy the lawyers instead of the techies. Waste of bits but not rights.

pritambaral commented 8 years ago

Of course. I don't mind the few extra bytes.

If we are going the full legal way, I'd want the legal text to be unmodified from the original. As of now, there's a few minor differences between your COPYING file and theirs. Having checked Realtek's code dump against hostap's, I can say their text is identical to hostap's from that time. If you could you copy over content from there, I can pull it in.

sspreitzer commented 1 year ago

This project seems dead and closed source. Closing PR.