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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I seem to remember there were 60 something commits to that developers tree in violation of the license. Maybe 5-10 would be accidental, but 60+ *different* commits?
No, that was intentional on the BSD developer's part. The only sad part is that he quit working on it when the linux bcm43xx developer offered to dual license the code.
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2006-01-01
can't we give the parties involved some minimal amount of time to sort this out *before* posting this flamebait?
why? when this sort of thing happen in April of this year between Michael Buesch and OpenBSD. Michael Buesch posted all over the mailing lists when he was accusing Openbsd of GPL license and
Copyright violations of the bcw driver. he did not give time to work things out.
It would also be nice if you didn't make it sound like your title, 'Linux Developers Steal OpenBSD Code for Wireless Driver', is a quote from the original when it isn't. The original headline is simply 'Linux Driver Copyright Violation', nothing about stealing.
again back in april,Buesch made sound like openbsd was stealing. when it turned out to be only an honest mistake on the dev part
Edited 2007-08-29 16:56