Return-path: Received: from static-ip-62-75-166-246.inaddr.intergenia.de ([62.75.166.246]:55483 "EHLO vs166246.vserver.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1767149AbXDERku (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Apr 2007 13:40:50 -0400 From: Michael Buesch To: Theo de Raadt Subject: Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues Date: Thu, 5 Apr 2007 19:40:03 +0200 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 References: <200704051705.l35H5KRn019095@cvs.openbsd.org> In-Reply-To: <200704051705.l35H5KRn019095@cvs.openbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Message-Id: <200704051940.04407.mb@bu3sch.de> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:05, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > He should start to contact us to get relicensing permission from > > us to speed up bcw development and stay legal. > > What bullshit. He should contact you, when he does not known that > he's been found to have made mistakes? > > Do you even know the word 'mistake'? > > If you make a mistake, sometimes you don't know it has been made > until someone tells you that you have made a mistake. I can't see how you can copy code from bcm43xx to bcw by mistake. Really, I want to explicitely state that in my opinion the 1:1 copying was going on intentionally. This is impossible to be a mistake. Theo, please _do_ compare the code of bcw and bcm43xx. You will find tons of 1:1 copied code. > 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. > 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. If you read the bcw commit logs and compare bcm43xx and bcw code you will see what I mean. Yes, _really_ do this! Compare it and you'll get my point. > 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. -- Greetings Michael.