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[4]: re
by binarycrusader on Fri 6th Apr 2007 17:41 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: re"
binarycrusader
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2005-07-06

It is not your place to enforce your beliefs on the whole world. Whether the GPL is morally applicable to drivers is not the issue here.


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

It is a two-way "street."

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RE[5]: re
by stestagg on Fri 6th Apr 2007 18:04 in reply to "RE[4]: re"
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2006-06-03

No, Anyone is free to define their own license. The success of the GPL is a result of 3rd party adoption NOT someone enforcing their beliefs.

Ste.

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RE[6]: re
by binarycrusader on Sat 7th Apr 2007 03:55 in reply to "RE[5]: re"
binarycrusader Member since:
2005-07-06

The success of the GPL is a result of 3rd party adoption NOT someone enforcing their beliefs.

I'm sure Stallman would say it is successful because of the "freedoms" it guarantees (enforces in my view), not its 3rd party adoption...

Edited 2007-04-07 04:06

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RE[5]: re
by blixel on Sat 7th Apr 2007 03:24 in reply to "RE[4]: re"
blixel Member since:
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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RE[6]: re
by binarycrusader on Sat 7th Apr 2007 03:51 in reply to "RE[5]: re"
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2005-07-06


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.


And people wonder why manufacturers won't support the Linux platform with more drivers...

Edited 2007-04-07 04:06

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