Re: [PATCH] Use libnl and nl80211 to get bitrate information

[drago01 <drago01 gmail com>]

On Thu, Jan 7, 2010 at 8:10 AM, Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-12-30 at 18:45 +0100, drago01 wrote:
>> 2009/10/5 Valmantas Palikša <walmis gmail com>:
>> > Latest version
>>
>> Dan any update on this?
>
> Have we resolved or at least satisfied any potential legal issues about
> trying to including BSD-derived code in a GPLv2+ project?
>
> If there's simply no other way to do the operations then it may well be
> OK, but given that (last I knew) the patch was more or less based on
> 'iw' (which is BSD licensed) I'm not exactly comfortable with applying
> the patch without a bit of legal advice.  Maybe we get Spot involved?

OK, we could also ask Johannes (AFAIK he has written the original iw
part), whether he could give his permissions to use the code in nm.
(if there are legal issues need to ask spot first).