Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:45659 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753195AbXDEQnd (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:43:33 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Theo de Raadt Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:41:56 +0200 Cc: Stefano Brivio , Marcus Glocker , Jon Simola , Theo de Raadt , Martin Langer , Danny van Dyk , Andreas Jaggi , Larry Finger , Quaker.Fang@sun.com, Johannes Berg , Joseph Jezak , John Linville , Greg kh , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, license-violation@gpl-violations.org References: <200704050029.l350TiP6025711@cvs.openbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200704050029.l350TiP6025711@cvs.openbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200704051841.58475.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 05 April 2007 02:29, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Who is mean here? Again, we aren't out for blood. I don't care for who is > > mean here. But if you do, you should be a bit more careful before insulting > > people. > > OH i get it. I'm insulting you, but you guys are not mean by taking it > widely public. No private mail received anyone. I'm sorry. This GPL violation is too obvious. Compare the code. Many functions are 1:1 copied. The author of bcw can't tell me that he did not intentionally violate the GPL and our copyright. > If Marcus Glocker just gives up now, and aborts his efforts, I would > not be surprised. I'd be a bit dissapointed but then it is just the > increasingly rare Broadcom chipset. Marcus Glocker is free to contact us to get a clean relicensing agreement on the code. I wrote that in the first mail. > If he quit, I would understand his position completely, based on the > first contact with him about this issue BEING A PUBLIC DRAG THROUGH > THE MUD BY YOU GUYS. Your code is public. We respond in your public GPL violation in a public mail. > This infighting between two teams trying to support the same chipset > is a complete mockery of the publicness of the original reverse > engineering effort. My guess is that Michael is thinking very > carefully about whether starting the discussion in public was the > right thing to do, but I am very sure that Stefano jumping in to lob a > second volley of mud helps noone's cause, especially Michael's cause. > Stefano, if you want this resolved nicely, I suggest you think before > you send more mail. Please don't attack Stefano. This leads to nothing. He is also a copyright holder of large amounts of bcm43xx code. > > Maintaining whitespace and variable names. > > Copyrighted whitespaces and variable names, you mean, right? We are not talking about variable names of whitespaces. We are talking about copied code and algorithms. The examples I brought were just examples. -- Greetings Michael.