Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 19:14:05 +0000
From: Jacob Meuser <jakemsr@sdf.lonestar.org>
To: mcgrof@gmail.com
Cc: mickflemm@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ath5k - License clarification
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Whie the license clarification is much appreciated, adding GPL'd
code to this driver is a slap in the face for BSD developers.

Adding code under a more restrictive licence than the code
was originally released; does that really fit in with the principles
of the FSF, the GPL, Linux, or the hacking community in general?

Regardless of whether this is Microsoft taking BSD code and making it
totally unfree, or you guys taking it and adding things which cannot
be taken back by the original author, the result is the same: changes
that don't go back to the author.  Isn't this one of the primary goals
of the GPL, so changes remain as free as the original?

Please think about that for a minute.  Not from your point of view
as a Linux coder, but from your point of view simply as a coder.

Thanks.

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