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Message-ID: <f34ca13c0709011852w7f2c14cevdd08582a0ba5ddf5@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:31 -0400 From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@...il.com> To: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@....openbsd.org> Cc: "Bob Beck" <beck@...h.cns.ualberta.ca>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org, misc@...nbsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing On 01/09/07, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@....openbsd.org> 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. > > When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door > against changes moving back, by putting a GPL license on guard. > > Why does our brother Linux take a file that is 90% BSD licensed, > and refuse to let us see the 10% he adds? Indeed, it's upsetting that people like Luis Rodriguez push for the lawyers to be involved to (fight?) an open source project. Why, may I ask? Why Luis puts the phrase "legal hell" next to entirely free software? [0] Why is he trying to go against the BSD community, which gave him the entire HAL framework for the driver in question? Best regards, Constantine. [0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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