[Wirelessdriver-devel] Fwd: Wireless networking support under OS X

[Rob M. <ro...@ma...>]

Just to make sure that everyone knows...

I just sent the following e-mail off to a contact at Asante.  It 
seems that someone has "developed" a driver for them that is 
simply a copy of our Beta 3 driver minus the preference pane and 
using a custom installer.

-Rob



Begin forwarded message:

> From: Rob McKeever <ro...@ma...>
> Date: Wed Jan 23, 2002  05:42:11 PM America/Vancouver
> To: bmu...@as...
> Subject: Wireless networking support under OS X
>
> I wanted to say that it was good to meet you at MacExpo.  In 
> case you don't remember, I was the fellow who has written the 
> open source driver that works with your wireless networking 
> 802.11b PC Card and we discussed the possibility of getting one 
> or two of your cards to use as samples or testing purposes.  At 
> the time, you also mentioned that Asante had just published 
> it's own drivers for this card.
>
> Unfortunately, due in part to an overabundance of work since 
> returning from the expo and due to your driver updates site 
> being down every time I checked until now, I hadn't had a 
> chance to take a look at your rivers.  Now that I have, I 
> thought I should make the following known to you and your 
> company:
>
> 	The driver Asante is distributing as for it's AL1011 PC 
> Card is the same driver that was developed by myself and others 
> as part of an open source project.
>
> I don't know who is taking credit for this driver internally at 
> Asante, but I would like to make sure that you know that this 
> is the same driver being distributed by us from 
> <http://wirelessdriver.sourceforge.net> as Beta 3 of our 
> driver.  The differences being that, in your version, you are 
> not distributing the preference pane that David Ross wrote as 
> part of the project and you are using a customized installer.
>
> Please note:  while we did this as an open source project, it 
> is covered by certain licensing terms that I will attach to the 
> end of this message.  By distributing your installer in the 
> form that you are, without any credits or a copy copyrights as 
> required by the BSD license we use, you are in violation of the 
> licensing terms.  We would like to see this corrected as soon 
> as possible and hope that this can be done without resorting to 
> further action being required.
>
> We would be happy to work with you to see the completion of a 
> driver for your product.  We recognize the need and, being the 
> people who did this port in the first place, feel that we would 
> be an excellent choice for completing this for you.  I have 
> recently rewritten the driver from scratch in an effort to 
> clear up many issues that have been present and see that this 
> could also be used either as a completed driver for your 
> product or as a starting point towards a customized version 
> developed in conjuction with you specifically for your 
> product.  As a start towards developing a relationship of this 
> sort, I invite you to check out our website and the current 
> state of the wirelessdriver project and would like to ask for 
> at least one card to be used as a sample for testing 
> compatibility with our code.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Rob McKeever
> ro...@ma...
>
>
>
> As promised, a copy of the terms under which our driver code 
> was provided publicly.  This disclaimer is stated prominently 
> at the beginning of each source file and during the 
> installation process when using our installer:
>
> /*
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>  *	Benjamin Herrenschmidt	<be...@mi...>
>  *	Louis Gerbarg		<ge...@cs...>
>  *	Rob McKeever		<ro...@ma...>
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