Christopher Ness | 16 Jun 17:34

Re: Stripping WifiAdmin Down

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 16:13 +0300, Thanos Panousis wrote:
> Kinda like using mysql in proprietory code/sites.

Excellent, I have been designing a strong interface between the two
objects so that we can use them separately.  They are command line
programs like `iwconfig` and Wifiadmin gathers the output for display.

Could McMasters Wireless Group ask for limited rights as suggested by
section 4 of the GPL to explicitly allow us to execute proprietary
programs with WifiAdmin?  This would likely make my supervisors sleep a
little better.

My understanding of the GPL is very basic, but an explicit "Yes - you
can do that." would be nice.

> May I ask what do those proprietary programmes do?

Absolutely.  The programs are currently part of some research to test
and modify a wireless mesh for dynamic configurations.  Sounds fancy,
eh?  :)  But they will likely be based on network traffic in the mesh
and a few other degrees of freedom.

Thanks for the great code base!  
I just wanted to make sure the project developers were aware what we are
working on so that if we decide to _eventually_ create a product out of
the derivative work we will still be in good standing.

Cheers,
Chris
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Thanos Panousis | 16 Jun 15:13
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From: Thanos Panousis <panousis <at> ceid.upatras.gr>
Subject: Re: [Wifiadmin-users] Stripping WifiAdmin Down
Date: 2005-06-16 12:56:31 GMT
Hello there,

Nice to see that you will be using wifiadmin to create something of your 
own.

I think, if you provide the sourcecode for your changes to wifiadmin, 
you will not break our licence. To my  knowledge, the GPL licence is 
violated, if the derivative work (your changes) of a GPL programme is 
not opensource. If any GPL programme is _linked_ with another programme, 
the last must also be under GPL. But in the case of PHP code, you will 
not be _linking_ our GPLed work with your proprietary programmes, you 
will be merely calling them externally.

Kinda like using mysql in proprietory code/sites.

May I ask what do those proprietary programmes do?

Christopher Ness wrote:
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