[pkg-wpa-devel] Bug#718651: Bug#718651: Built hostapd/wpasupplicant 2.1 (patch)

[Stefan Lippers-Hollmann]

Control: tags -1 - patch

Hi

On Saturday 31 May 2014, Gerald Turner wrote:
[...]
> I paid particular attention to merging upstream's defconfgs and
> debian/config/* files, activating several options:
[...]

Thank you for your efforts, but these changes are the straight-forward
and easy part. What you've missed in your patch, is the actual 
difficulty (well, not 'difficult', but extremely time-consuming and 
tiresome) involved, updating debian/copyright... Upstream relicensed 
from dual-licensed "GPL2 || BSD" to 3-clause BSD exclusively[1], due to
significant files movements (wpa_supplicant learning more tricks that 
were usually reserved to hostapd) and quite a few new features from new
authors (like WiFi Direct/ p2p) it is not done with a mere 
s/BSD\ or\ GPL-2/BSD/.

> Hope to see 2.1 in jessie!

No, but the upcoming 2.2, which is currently in its final stages before
getting released upstream.

Regards
	Stefan Lippers-Hollmann

[1]	I have already confirmed that there aren't any hidden licensing 
	problems, but reflecting that in a DEP-5 compliant debian/copyright
	is everything but funny for any piece of non-trivial amount of code
	with various authors.
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