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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2006-01-03
The guy makes a mistake (and I believe it a mistake) in the commits. Instead of being contacted, he is blasted (and I read all the threads). The driver is deleted (so there is no infringement). Both sides act poorly (still) and now both sides don't like each other. Nobody wins.
All because a simple thing wasn't done. A simple email contacting the developer "Hey, did you know?" and it would have been taken care of, no hard feelings, no poor public displays by anyone.
After reading the threads, I have to side with the BSD side on this.