README
1wpa_supplicant and hostapd
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4Copyright (c) 2002-2011, Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> and contributors
5All Rights Reserved.
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7These programs are dual-licensed under both the GPL version 2 and BSD
8license (the one with advertisement clause removed). Either license
9may be used at your option.
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12This package may include either wpa_supplicant, hostapd, or both. See
13README file respective subdirectories (wpa_supplicant/README or
14hostapd/README) for more details.
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16Source code files were moved around in v0.6.x releases and compared to
17earlier releases, the programs are now built by first going to a
18subdirectory (wpa_supplicant or hostapd) and creating build
19configuration (.config) and running 'make' there (for Linux/BSD/cygwin
20builds).
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26GPL v2:
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28This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
29it under the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as
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