Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933790AbXIBBe2 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:34:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932592AbXIBBeR (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:34:17 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38659 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932514AbXIBBeP (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:34:15 -0400 Message-ID: <46DA1315.9060002@garzik.org> Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:34:13 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.5 (X11/20070719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jason Dixon CC: mureninc@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk Subject: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE@dixongroup.net> In-Reply-To: <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE@dixongroup.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Score: -4.3 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.1.9 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.3 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 725 Lines: 18 Jason Dixon wrote: > Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must > remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your > license, but the original copyright and license permission remains > intact. Many other entities (Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc) have used BSD > code and have no problem understanding this. Why is this so difficult > for the Linux brain share to absorb? Why is it so difficult to understand dual licensing? Jeff - 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/