Star OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL Violation Issues
Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Apr 2007 13:14 UTC, submitted by detonator
OpenBSD "I, Michael Buesch, am one of the maintainers of the GPL'd Linux wireless LAN driver for the Broadcom chip (bcm43xx). The Copyright holders of bcm43xx (which includes me) want to talk to you, OpenBSD bcw developers, about possible GPL license and therefore copyright violations in your bcw driver. We believe that you might have directly copied code out of bcm43xx (licensed under GPL v2), without our explicit permission, into bcw (licensed under BSD license)." The entire thread can be found here.
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by binarycrusader on Fri 6th Apr 2007 17:41 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: re"
binarycrusader
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It is not your place to enforce your beliefs on the whole world. Whether the GPL is morally applicable to drivers is not the issue here.


Oh, but it's ok for Stallman to use the GPL to enforce his beliefs about patents on the world with the GPLv3?

It is a two-way "street."

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