Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933896AbXIBBwp (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:45 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933438AbXIBBwe (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:34 -0400 Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.228]:28760 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933247AbXIBBwc (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:32 -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=X1SaZvjv6i3GLmQ1r+mctT7g2DB559xVyIO+hGoi4bg7dUSLSDnWO8YTLkKrtLHcdpvscVefgouCQlzqjo2IPP6Gy3DOnhA8EY2zWROVHRZs9EbPrWaLgh1QuYgQdHa4K2mSDZH3i6afKHZDO8GjQlrnL7b/+tK4NPL2nseIpHA= Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:31 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" To: "Theo de Raadt" Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Cc: "Bob Beck" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, misc@openbsd.org In-Reply-To: <200709020036.l820aaNf014181@cvs.openbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070902000226.GE24887@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca> <200709020036.l820aaNf014181@cvs.openbsd.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1131 Lines: 28 On 01/09/07, Theo de Raadt wrote: > When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of > them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that > is OK. > > When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door > against changes moving back, by putting a GPL license on guard. > > Why does our brother Linux take a file that is 90% BSD licensed, > and refuse to let us see the 10% he adds? Indeed, it's upsetting that people like Luis Rodriguez push for the lawyers to be involved to (fight?) an open source project. Why, may I ask? Why Luis puts the phrase "legal hell" next to entirely free software? [0] Why is he trying to go against the BSD community, which gave him the entire HAL framework for the driver in question? Best regards, Constantine. [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2 - 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/