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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RE[5]: re
by blixel on Sat 7th Apr 2007 03:24 UTC in reply to "RE[4]: re"
blixel
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2005-07-06

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


No one is forcing developers to license their code under the GPL. Developers who CHOOSE to use the GPL for their code know exactly what they are doing. They use the GPL because they agree with spirit of the license.

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