Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757891AbXIAV1U (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:27:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756164AbXIAV1I (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:27:08 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.236]:42106 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752494AbXIAV1E (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:27:04 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=dLUXYRKQ57z3pLbB0aJ0fipWTkmZrtdJ0aveBZEyTNlh8kiWjBE14Rdjk5Z2cDSLmQZfr3dJMG/bnnMWDwn0dSPAMkdMtNCvzWvEhUiPQtdvjqFtmb3Y4Gs6FgfOhuglKActe9rb9o2B8Z07sv3BJEpuT13nsGbX1gMoGtRjVd8= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 17:27:03 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" To: "Adrian Bunk" Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1856 Lines: 43 On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. > > > > > > What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual licensing? > > > > Reyk's code was never dual licensed, so it's not like it even matters > > to the original dispute. > > It's no longer dual licenced in the FreeBSD tree because the FreeBSD > people removed the GPL choice of the dual licenced code 3 months ago. FreeBSD doesn't have Reyk's ath(4) HAL, which OpenHAL is based on. FreeBSD has a driver written by Sam, and a binary-only HAL, also written by Sam. > So all of Theo's accusations of people breaking the law by making this > dual licenced code GPL-only apply as well to the FreeBSD people... How? FreeBSD doesn't have Reyk's ath(4) HAL from OpenBSD, so there are no possible licensing accusations and violations. > > That said, I don't see what exact wording you consider inaccurate. > > Both the FreeBSD and Linux people draw the logical conclusion that this > "Alternatively" means everyone can always choose to remove one of the > two choices alternatively offered. > > According to Theo, that is "breaking the law"... FreeBSD's ath(4) code, both the driver and the HAL, is entirely written by Sam Leffler, who can licence it in whichever way he seems reasonable. The driver part of Sam's code is also present in OpenBSD, but the HALs in OpenBSD and FreeBSD are entirely different. C. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/