Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 14th Sep 2007 13:58 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"Reyk and I have decided to show something from the private handling of this Atheros copyright violation issue," OpenBSD creator Theo de Raadt began in a posting to the OpenBSD -misc mailing list referring to the recent relicensing of OpenBSD's BSD licensed Atheros driver under the GPL. He noted, "it has been like pulling teeth since (most) Linux wireless guys and the SFLC do not wish to admit fault. I think that the Linux wireless guys should really think hard about this problem, how they look, and the legal risks they place upon the future of their source code bodies." He stressed that the theory that BSD code can simply be relicensed to the GPL without making significant changes to the code is false, adding, "in their zeal to get the code under their own license, some of these Linux wireless developers have broken copryright law repeatedly. But to even get to the point where they broke copyright law, they had to bypass a whole series of ethical considerations too."
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RE: But the projects are -not- doing this.
by dylansmrjones on Fri 14th Sep 2007 16:18
in reply to "But the projects are -not- doing this."
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The projects that have found submissions that have been incorrectly edited, have been actively fixing those mistakes. What is the issue?