Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:54733 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767147AbXDERgZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:36:25 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Theo de Raadt Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:35:35 +0200 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 References: <200704051700.l35H0Cc7027001@cvs.openbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200704051700.l35H0Cc7027001@cvs.openbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200704051935.36264.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:00, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > 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'm sorry if the mail sounded too strong. This was not intentional. But I think I made a great effort to make this clear, though. I am not out for blood. > I mean, if I were him, why would I bother going on, To get your broadcom cards working on bsd?? Really, there's no single other reason to write a driver. > 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 did _never_ base by arguments on these things. I explicitely marked these things in the mail as being EXAMPLES for the most obvious 1:1 copying going on. > I'd say he did the right thing to give up. Only if you don't need a Broadcom wireless driver. -- Greetings Michael.