Return-path: Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]:38203 "EHLO fencepost.gnu.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767230AbXDETbs (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 15:31:48 -0400 Received: from proski by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1HZXeC-0005YL-Ee for linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:29:28 -0400 Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues From: Pavel Roskin To: Theo de Raadt Cc: Michael Buesch , 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 In-Reply-To: <200704051848.l35ImrcP028396@cvs.openbsd.org> References: <200704051848.l35ImrcP028396@cvs.openbsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:31:27 -0400 Message-Id: <1175801487.19303.52.camel@dv> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 12:48 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > No, your message offered that he can come begging, because that is the > best that thieves may do. > > Come little dog, come beg for forgiveness. > > You are a very poor example of humankind. Theo, I'm a member of linux-wireless list, an occasional contributor to bcm43xx and a MadWifi developer. It has been a few months ago that I was feeling bad for another OpenBSD driver developer. The MadWifi team asked him to relicense parts of the driver (so called openhal) under GPL so that if would be easier for us to erase the boundary between the HAL and the rest of MadWifi and eventually integrate it into the Linux kernel. We got a message from you, which was rather abusive, and it just made impossible for that OpenBSD developer to do anything but to deny our request. I was feeling bad for him, because it was his code. I would not want to be in a similar situation. Now you are asking us to be sensitive towards somebody who just took the code under GPL and put it under BSD license without asking any questions, nicely or otherwise. I'm sorry, but your Harlequin show is woefully unconvincing and out-of-date. Knowing something about you, I think a "sensitive OpenBSD developer" is an oxymoron. I don't want to fan the flames anymore, so it's probably my one and only posting regarding this topic, unless you give me a good reason to reply. But please don't try. -- Regards, Pavel Roskin