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1wpa_supplicant and hostapd
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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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11If you are submitting changes to the project, please see CONTRIBUTIONS
12file for more instructions.
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15This package may include either wpa_supplicant, hostapd, or both. See
16README file respective subdirectories (wpa_supplicant/README or
17hostapd/README) for more details.
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19Source code files were moved around in v0.6.x releases and compared to
20earlier releases, the programs are now built by first going to a
21subdirectory (wpa_supplicant or hostapd) and creating build
22configuration (.config) and running 'make' there (for Linux/BSD/cygwin
23builds).
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31This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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