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Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:39:30 EDT."
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Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 14:56:29 -0600
From: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
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> <shrug>  Probably because of the confrontation tone of the entire 
> thread.  Everybody's on the offensive, and not willing to admit mistakes.

Oh, for sure I know that is what is going on.  Only one person has
admitted a mistake thus far, and it was Marcus Glocker, in his first
post to the thread.  After that, Michael got to the point of saying
that he does not believe that Marcus made a mistake.  Therefore
Michael has further entrenched his position.

> A private email SHOULD be the first approach for a copyright issue like 
> this, regardless of whether its a private person or a corp.
> 
> 
> > Shall I keep replying until everyone gets it?
> 
> Whatever makes you happy :)

It makes me happy to show that I have empathy for a situation where
someone who puts hundreds of hours of work in as a hobby, and to
defend that person.  It makes me extremely unhappy that I have to do
so, and that some other people think this is a non-event.

> > <rest deleted, because the above line is so important>
> 
> Snipped?  I presume, then, you admit you are misrepresenting others' 
> opinions in this thread.

No, there was a side discussion about whitespace and variable naming,
and even algorithms covered by the GPL.  Gimme a break.  These were
essentially claimed by some of the examples shown by Michael.  Go look
carefully.

That said, there were more real issues, and those have been dealt with
in a reply from Marcus, plus the driver now being deleted.

The Italian dude in particular was complaining bitterly in private
mail about the whitespace similarities... good grief, not whitespace
similarities.  How SCO of him.