From: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
To: Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues
Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 20:47:10 +0200
Cc: Joseph Jezak <josejx@gentoo.org>,
	Stefano Brivio <stefano.brivio@polimi.it>,
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	Danny van Dyk <kugelfang@gentoo.org>,
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	Greg kh <greg@kroah.com>, bcm43xx-dev@lists.berlios.de,
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On Thursday 05 April 2007 20:32, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> Or are you now going to say that all the functions he
> is using are OK to use?

No!
I decide this on a case-by-case base as you OpenBSD guys contact
me and ask "Is it OK to you to use this particular fraction of code...".
I wrote that in the very first mail.

> No, you wanted him to come begging,

I want you to respect my copyright. Fullstop.
And if he wants to use my GPL code in his BSD project, he has no
other legal opportunity than asking me for permission.
Same goes for other code that is copyrighted by the other bcm43xx
developers.

-- 
Greetings Michael.