Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.169]:53604 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767404AbXDEXAL convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:00:11 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id 44so1093450uga for ; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:00:10 -0700 (PDT) To: Theo de Raadt Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues Date: Fri, 6 Apr 2007 00:59:24 +0200 Cc: Johannes Berg , Stefano Brivio , "Luis R. Rodriguez" , Pavel Roskin , Michael Buesch , Joseph Jezak , Marcus Glocker , Jon Simola , Theo de Raadt , Martin Langer , Danny van Dyk , Andreas Jaggi , Larry Finger , Quaker.Fang@sun.com, John Linville , Greg kh , bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, license-violation@gpl-violations.org References: <200704052139.l35LdHhb006295@cvs.openbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200704052139.l35LdHhb006295@cvs.openbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Message-Id: <200704060059.24876.IvDoorn@gmail.com> From: Ivo van Doorn Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > > * removed their attribution >=20 > The attribution was never to be added, because a couple of functions > were copied in temporarily to help development of other functions, an= d > then they were accidentally commited. To be honest it is completely beyond me how somebody manages to read code, considers it usefull (and thus has read the code in such = a way that he was searching for something usefull), copy'n'paste the code and= commits the code to cvs. And at the end of the day claims that it is an acciden= t. > It was an accident for him to commit it. =A0But it was no accident yo= u > decided to make a public fuss about it. =A0Now you have your public > fuss. Everybody can make his own choice on the manner in which the violation = is being reported. Yes, Michael could have send a private mail, but he could als= o have made the violation even more public by adding some mail address that would h= ave started an even bigger flamewar. But note that 75% of the people following this thread would not have ta= ken too much interest into this violation when you did not jump into the trenches an= d starting to insult people in order to make a big fuzz about it You have your reasons for wanting a discussion about the GPL violation = private, Michael had his reasons for making more people aware of the situation. Just bec= ause somebody does not share the same opinion as you don't make him "inhumane", "harm= ing cooperation between open source projects". Neither is it true that somebody is "Not being supportive to the open source community" when he cannot fulf= ill your request/demand. I wonder what upsets you most, the fact that openBSD is not perfect in = terms of that the code contains a GPL violation or that you were forced into a public debate a= bout this while you prefer to flame and insult people privately. Ivo - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireles= s" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html