Return-path: Received: from fresno.net.uniovi.es ([156.35.11.2]:59094 "EHLO FRESNO.NET.UNIOVI.ES" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755716AbXIBP6o (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 11:58:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 17:58:41 +0200 (CEST) From: Igor Sobrado Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing In-reply-to: <46DAC482.5090107@garzik.org> To: Jeff Garzik Cc: Krzysztof Halasa , Alan Cox , Adrian Bunk , "Constantine A. Murenin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jiri Slaby Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: TEXT/PLAIN; format=flowed; charset=US-ASCII References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070902113638.78fbd202@the-village.bc.nu> <20070902115041.GM16016@stusta.de> <20070902134612.28a88761@the-village.bc.nu> <46DAC482.5090107@garzik.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote: > Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> WRT Atheros driver I'd probably leave the thing as is (i.e., BSD/GPL >> = in fact BSD), unless something like 50+% of the code is rewritten - >> it's mostly their hard work after all, isn't it? Not legal >> requirement, though. > > Yes. This deserves to be reinforced: > > There is definite value in sharing the ath5k HAL between OpenBSD and Linux. Of course. Sharing knowledge and efforts can only improve both the GPL and BSD licensed code. It is important in all cases, but becomes critical when support from manufacturers is limited or even non existent. In these cases, shared efforts are required to write successful code. Cheers, Igor.