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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2005-07-08
I have read the majority of the comments on this "issue" both here and on Slashdot and I have come to the conclusion that companies looking to potentially work with F/OSS developers could be reluctant to cooperate or work with F/OSS developers based on their inability to handle simple problems without unnecessary publicity and flame wars, in other words act like adults.
I am sure that this has not escaped various people at Broadcom, who could use this as further justification not to open up their hardware and software to further F/OSS development.