Return-path: Received: from cvs.openbsd.org ([199.185.137.3]:40953 "EHLO cvs.openbsd.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767172AbXDERsI (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:48:08 -0400 Message-Id: <200704051744.l35HiE6J004931@cvs.openbsd.org> To: Michael Buesch cc: Joseph Jezak , Stefano Brivio , Marcus Glocker , Jon Simola , Theo de Raadt , Martin Langer , Danny van Dyk , Andreas Jaggi , Larry Finger , Quaker.Fang@sun.com, Johannes Berg , 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 19:40:03 +0200." <200704051940.04407.mb@bu3sch.de> Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 11:44:14 -0600 From: Theo de Raadt Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: > Theo, please _do_ compare the code of bcw and bcm43xx. You will find > tons of 1:1 copied code. Yes, like those copyrighted variables names. > > And you are surprised about what has happened? > > Yes I am. I thought you were really interrested in having a Broadcom > wireless driver for openbsd. Marcus sure wanted it, and he's been working on it for 6 months. But some person on the net who does not know how human beings react when they are called thieves implied he had purposefully stolen code, and he's so saddened that he is going to throw all that away. > > Are you living in > > a cave? Are you not human? Don't you know how people behave when > > they are publically attacked, and not treated with respectful private > > discussion to point out their mistakes? > > This was not a mistake. bcw developers obviously intentionally > copied our code. You just called him a thief, again. > > His deletion of the code has happened for one reason and one reason > > alone -- your way of trying to handle this. > > I don't agree to this. > This sounds more like he lost interrest in getting a clean Broadcom > wireless driver. Lost interest? I guess you didn't read the commit message. revision 1.89 date: 2007/04/05 16:25:25; author: mglocker; state: dead; lines: +1 -1 After been attacked by Michael Buesch because we initially were using some of their routines in the bcw driver, I decided to stop working on it. To avoid any further license chit chat I plain drop the driver. Note it's 89 revisions, over 6 months. Yeah, he lost interest. Just like years ago you lost interest in being a loving caring human being who knows the impact of their words. Either he's a thief, or he lost interest. Which is it?