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Message-ID: <20070904150141.GC2346@ff.dom.local> Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2007 17:01:41 +0200 From: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@...pl> To: Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu Cc: espie@...im.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: GPL weasels and the atheros stink On 03-09-2007 18:12, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 16:03:07 +0200, Marc Espie said: > >> Look at the situation: Reyk Floeter writes some code, puts it >> under a dual licence, and goes on vacation. >> >> While he's away, some other people (Jiri, for starters) tweak the >> copyright and licence on the file he's mostly written. Without asking >> Reyk. Without even having the basic decency to wait for him to be >> around. > > And we collectively told Jiri where to stick that. Are you sure everybody told the same then? > > So let's recap: > > 1) Jiri submitted a borked patch that changed the licenses. > 2) We didn't accept said patch. > 3) There's then a whole big fuss about a *NON EXISTENT PROBLEM*. > > I could see where the *BSD people could complain if we had *accepted and > distributed* said patch. But it was wrong, we recognized it was wrong, ... Probably there would be no problem if it were like this (...plus maybe some usual s-word...). Regards, Jarek P. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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