proxim usb wifi and ubuntu

[Luke -Jr]

On Wednesday 21 February 2007 11:21, Bradley Hook wrote:
> Luke -Jr wrote:
> > Warning: 'madwifi' is not GPL-compatible; as such, it is illegal and will
> > taint your kernel.
>
>  From the COPYRIGHT file in the madwifi tarball:
>
>   * Alternatively, this software may be distributed under the terms of the
>   * GNU General Public License ("GPL") version 2 as published by the Free
>   * Software Foundation.

Indeed, but that is just a wrapper. This GPL'd wrapper is *distributed along 
with* a binary blob it links to which is *specifically* not GPL.
madwifi-0.9.2.1/hal/COPYRIGHT:
	All files contained in this distribution are covered by the following
	copyright unless explicitly identified otherwise.  Note that this
	copyright does _NOT_ contain a "or GPL" clause and does _NOT_ permit
	redistribution with changes.