Return-path: Received: from cvs.openbsd.org ([199.185.137.3]:3279 "EHLO cvs.openbsd.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753310AbXDEREM (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:04:12 -0400 Message-Id: <200704051700.l35H0Cc7027001@cvs.openbsd.org> To: Michael Buesch cc: Marcus Glocker , Jon Simola , Theo de Raadt , Stefano Brivio , 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 Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Apr 2007 18:57:26 +0200." <200704051857.27471.mb@bu3sch.de> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:00:12 -0600 From: Theo de Raadt Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > No. I'd like _you_ to make "your" developers aware of the issue > that you'd like to have the openbsd tree clean, in the first place. I make developers aware. Marcus was aware. He made a few mistakes. You don't believe him. That's fine. We don't believe your public flogging was the kind and right way to approach this whole problem. But the issue is over. The code has been entirely deleted. I hope you are happy. I am sure Marcus is not happy, because he's thrown away about 800 hours of hobby work. But it is easier for him to just abandon this, based on the strength of your initial mail. I mean, if I were him, why would I bother going on, when there are accusations about copyright being based on white space, variable names which are the same, or simple "save the registers" algorithms which you feel are too similar. I'd say he did the right thing to give up.