From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 18:59:46 +0200
Cc: Marcus Glocker <mglocker@openbsd.org>,
	Jon Simola <jsimola@gmail.com>,
	Theo de Raadt <deraadt@theos.com>,
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On Thursday 05 April 2007 00:22, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> >  [citing Michael, Date unknown]
> > "What if Broadcom decides to take our LO measure state machine and
> > put it into the original driver? (The Rev Engineers told me they have
> > a very different weird solution for this in their code).
> > I really don't want to see this happen."
> 
> For the record, I want to warn you that you CANNOT COPYRIGHT
> A STATE MACHINE, which is what the above sentence implies.

> You can copyright the actual way it is written ('expression'), but you

We explicitely takled about the IMPLEMENTATION. An Implementation _is_
"the way it is written". Fullstop.

> Whoever Michael is, that comment above about using the GPL as a patent
> like tool is crazy.  And if you think that the GPL has any binding
> against Broadcom copying the idea of your state machine, you are
> quite deluded.

Please read my mail more carefully in the first place, please.

-- 
Greetings Michael.