Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 29th Aug 2007 12:12 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"After years of encouragement from the OpenBSD community for others to use Reyk Floeter's free atheros wireless driver, it seems that the Linux world is finally listening. Unfortunately, they seem to think that they can strip the BSD license right out of it." Update: The issue has been fixed, but sadly, lkml.org is down, so I cannot give any links just yet.
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Member since:2006-02-17
Never attribute to malice that which is readily explained by stupidity. In this particular case, the driver had BSD bits and GPL bits in the source and someone removed one of the notices by accident (presumably not realizing where the BSD-only chuck started and ended).
Seeing as how the issue was fixed within a few minutes of it being pointed out, I don't think it's a big deal.
Member since:2005-08-17
Member since:2006-07-15
http://kerneltrap.org/node/14243
Maybe this clarifies it. There is no "it seems" in copyright law.
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2005-12-13
...why should one do so when the act itself (the hijacking of the rights to the code in question) never should have happened and since the news value of this is legitimate enough for them to discuss openly in a forum?