Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Sep 2007 13:58 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Reyk and I have decided to show something from the private handling of this Atheros copyright violation issue," OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt began in a posting to the OpenBSD -misc mailing list referring to the recent relicensing of OpenBSD's BSD licensed Atheros driver under the GPL. He noted, "it has been like pulling teeth since (most) Linux wireless guys and the SFLC do not wish to admit fault. I think that the Linux wireless guys should really think hard about this problem, how they look, and the legal risks they place upon the future of their source code bodies." He stressed that the theory that BSD code can simply be relicensed to the GPL without making significant changes to the code is false, adding, "in their zeal to get the code under their own license, some of these Linux wireless developers have broken copryright law repeatedly. But to even get to the point where they broke copyright law, they had to bypass a whole series of ethical considerations too."
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That case was actually resolved. By the developer simply deleting all code in question.
If you had read that thread, you'd know perfectly well some of the facts surrounding it, including that Michael Buesch was being a complete asshole about it from start.
You'd also know that Marcus Glocker despite all that tried to talk about it, but was completely ignored until he posted 11 hours later that he chose to give up completely.
The current case is (as of article submission time) not resolved despite it being weeks in the brewing. If you don't see why, or the differencies between the two cases, maybe you should go back to reading, and try to actually understand what they were about and how they were handled.
You should also take special note of Reyk's posts in the thread you supplied.