Re: [Wirelessdriver-support] Re: support and such

[Felix K. <fk...@op...>]

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On Sep 8, 2004, at 23:10, Amanda Walker wrote:

> Actually, no.  I wrote the IOXperts driver, which shares zero code 
> with the freeware driver.  Rob McKeever was the most recent maintainer 
> of the freeware driver.  I think that we may have waved to each other 
> at some point at a MacWorld Expo, but that's the extent of the 
> connection.
>
>> We were beta testers for
>> the driver.  He was paid for the ioxperts driver but this one was 
>> free.
>>   That's why there will be no further development on the free driver -
>> ioxperts has a copyright on the finished product.
>
> This is not true in any way.  I believe that Rob did some work on 
> contract for MacSense for their USB devices, and MacSense may assert a 
> copyright on that work, but IOXperts has no copyright on (or interest 
> in stifling the development) of Rob's driver.

thanks for correcting the statements and making the situation a bit 
clear. I missed the original posting, but from the point of licensing 
of the source code: each souce file in the driver does have a proper 
licensing header. According to these licensensing statements the driver 
(that is currently available from wirelessdriver.sf.net) is release 
under the 4-clause bsd license. I tried contacting the maintainers of 
this driver a few months ago, to make sure this really is the case 
(since sadly a "LICENSE" file is missing from the source).

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