Return-path: Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com ([66.249.82.229]:29405 "EHLO wx-out-0506.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933262AbXIBBwc (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:32 -0400 Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id h31so1166480wxd for ; Sat, 01 Sep 2007 18:52:31 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:31 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" To: "Theo de Raadt" Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Cc: "Bob Beck" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, misc@openbsd.org In-Reply-To: <200709020036.l820aaNf014181@cvs.openbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 References: <20070902000226.GE24887@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca> <200709020036.l820aaNf014181@cvs.openbsd.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On 01/09/07, Theo de Raadt wrote: > When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of > them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that > is OK. > > When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door > against changes moving back, by putting a GPL license on guard. > > Why does our brother Linux take a file that is 90% BSD licensed, > and refuse to let us see the 10% he adds? Indeed, it's upsetting that people like Luis Rodriguez push for the lawyers to be involved to (fight?) an open source project. Why, may I ask? Why Luis puts the phrase "legal hell" next to entirely free software? [0] Why is he trying to go against the BSD community, which gave him the entire HAL framework for the driver in question? Best regards, Constantine. [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2