Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Sep 2007 13:40 UTC, submitted by dylansmrjones
SFLC has released a code analysis of the infamous ath5k driver in Linux. SFLC has also - in the aftermath of the OpenBSD-Team vs. Linux-Team 'License Flame War' - released a paper on what 'copyrightable' means, as well as one on proper usage of non-GPL'ed code in GPL'ed projects. All as part of guidance for developers wishing to use permissive licensed code in GPL'ed projects.
Groklaw naturally also has a take on this.
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2006-05-19
It's ok for a closed-source company to re-license BSD code such that they lock their changes to BSD code away forever. That's how the license goes. Why in this case people cried foul when someone re-licensed BSD code in a much more open way is beyond me.
Excuse moa, who said re-license? Heck, even Microsoft got BSDL code under BSDL and nobody is going to re-license it under other so called "commercial" license. And who said that companies does not contribute code back?
GPL is much more open way? YOU LOCKED MY CODE IN YOUR GPL LICENSE DAMMIT... hypocrite...