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OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL Violation Issues

Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 6th Apr 2007 13:14 UTC, submitted by detonator

"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: Typical GPL'ers

by stestagg on Fri 6th Apr 2007 14:54 UTC in reply to "Typical GPL'ers"

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2006-06-03

The code was public, therefore there should have been public disclosure of a violation. Simple.

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RE[2]: Typical GPL'ers

by Marcellus on Fri 6th Apr 2007 15:02 in reply to "RE: Typical GPL'ers"

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2005-08-26

They could still have discussed AND resolved it in private before anything was said in public.

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RE[3]: Typical GPL'ers

by devurandom on Sat 7th Apr 2007 17:42 in reply to "RE[2]: Typical GPL'ers"

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2005-07-06

Why?
What's the difference?
Marcus wrote public code. He did a public act this way. He should have expected public consequences, both good and bad.

If he wanted private mails, he could have wrote his code privately and sent it to the bcm43xx guys for review.

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