linux-kernel - Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

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Message-ID: <20070901211642.GL9260@stusta.de>
Date:	Sat, 1 Sep 2007 23:16:43 +0200
From:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...nel.org>
To:	"Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@...il.com>
Cc:	Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:54:57PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...zik.org> wrote:
> > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing.
> > >
> > > What myth?  The myth that Theo understands dual licensing?
> > 
> > Reyk's code was never dual licensed, so it's not like it even matters
> > to the original dispute.

Oh, and if you look at the OpenBSD CVS you see versions 4 months old 
with dozens of contributions by Reyk and with:

/*      $OpenBSD: ath.c,v 1.63 2007/05/09 16:41:14 reyk Exp $  */
/*      $NetBSD: ath.c,v 1.37 2004/08/18 21:59:39 dyoung Exp $        */

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cu
Adrian

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