Return-path: Received: from sovereign.computergmbh.de ([85.214.69.204]:50196 "EHLO sovereign.computergmbh.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965608AbXIBLko (ORCPT ); Sun, 2 Sep 2007 07:40:44 -0400 Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2007 13:40:43 +0200 (CEST) From: Jan Engelhardt To: Theo de Raadt cc: Bob Beck , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing In-Reply-To: <200709020036.l820aaNf014181@cvs.openbsd.org> Message-ID: References: <200709020036.l820aaNf014181@cvs.openbsd.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-wireless-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Sep 1 2007 18:36, 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. For companies it's ok, but for linux people it is not? (1) You do not know how much of the modifications companies did are actually returned (2) You do not know whether the ath5k linux part authors will give back at a later point (much like companies)