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: A Simple Clarification
by segedunum on Fri 6th Apr 2007 20:38
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Anyone who wants this whole situation summed up in two mails, read this one from Michael Buesch:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1558/fo.....
Drat. Use of frames on web sites...........
First e-mail from Michael Busch:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1602
Second e-mail from Theo:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1604
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2005-07-06
Anyone who wants this whole situation summed up in two mails, read this one from Michael Buesch:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1558/fo...
If Marcus (and Theo) were going to use existing GPLed code, he needed to get relicensing of it sorted out - something that developers think about all the time in various open source projects. He didn't do that, and distributed GPLed code under a BSD license.
Theo, responded with this:
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1558/fo...
Personally, I think it is far better this was made known and sorted out, rather than Marcus wasting even more time and it becoming an even bigger issue in the future.