[Mesh] [wlan-si dev] Re: TDMA for OpenWrt devices

[Mitar]

Hi!

I do not think you will get far with copyright infringement against a
Russian company. ;-)


Mitar

> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 3:53 AM, Valent Turkovic <valent at otvorenamreza.org>
> wrote:
> 
>> My plan is to see how Netshee TDMA driver works in real life, I'll put
>> it to work on one point to multipoint link.
>>
>> And also see I can get their firmware to just load openwrt packages
>> for olsr and babel, and it if all works together. There could be some
>> issues because they use their own wireless stack.
>>
>> If it all works I would suggest we start using this TDMA driver (which
>> is really mature, and in use for over 5 years with lots of users) and
>> then migrate over time to FreeBSD TDMA if/when it becomes available
>> and more stable. Currently it doesn't even work for most atheros
>> devices, latest updates broke lot of stuff (I have a freebsd briend
>> who is really interested to get tdma working with freebsd and ar9331
>> but he can't, and keeps me updated).
>>
>> Has any of you tested TDMA firmware from these Russian guys (NETShe)?
>> They have been developing this TDMA stack for over 5 years and got it
>> quite polished from what I can gather.
>>
>> On Sun, Jul 26, 2015 at 11:47 AM, Mitar <mitar at tnode.com> wrote:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> So, ther is also:
>>>
>>>> russian company called NETSHe is offering OpenWrt images with TDMA
>>>> driver support for free for some devices (they have some restrictions
>>>> in free version):
>>>
>>> http://netshe.ru/files/NETSHe-3.0/
>>
> 
> Wait are they distributing binaries of their TDMA-enabled driver but
> withholding the source code? Am I misunderstanding something or are they
> blatantly violating the GPL?
> 
> Should we contact the SFLC about the violation and see if they can put some
> pressure on them to publish the code?
> 
> 
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