On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 17:39 +0200, Stefan Parviainen wrote: > Is there any work going on to get support for the freedesktop.org HAL > specification (http://wiki.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fhal)? It seems that > there are quite a few programs that would benefit from this. Is there a > technical reason why this hasn't been implemented yet, or is the reason > simply lack of developers? I realize that the port would probably be fairly > difficult to make. > > The reason I'm asking is that on linux I can use this really wonderful > program > called NetworkManager which manages network connection (Who would have > guessed?). Unfortunately it requires fd.o HAL so using it under OpenBSD is > currently impossible. Is there any alternative for OpenBSD which supports > network roaming and such? >
Just a thought, but it may have something to do with this: "HAL is licensed to you under your choice of the Academic Free License version 2.1, or the GNU General Public License version 2. Both licenses are included here. Some individual source code files and/or binaries may be under the GPL only or under the LGPG." from COPYING, found at http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git;a=tree, with (my) emphasis strongly on that last sentence. - Bret > -- > Stefan Parviainen
