Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2007 03:44:45 +0200
From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>, David Schwartz <davids@webmaster.com>,
       "Linux-Kernel@Vger. Kernel. Org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Wasting our Freedom
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On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:19:14PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
>...
> Now, in the case of the Atheros wireless code, the original author
> (Sam Leffler) has stated that as far as *his* code was concerned, he
> was willing to dual license it.  However, in this case, he agreed to
> have the code dual-licensed three years after the project was started.
> He was amused and had no objections to people retroactively applying
> the licensing changes to code that was 3 years old.[1]
>...

It's actually the other way round:

Sam changed the licence from dual 3-clause BSD and GPL to 2-clause BSD.

> 						- Ted

cu
Adrian

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