From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933898AbXIBBnN (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:43:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S933356AbXIBBm6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:42:58 -0400 Received: from py-out-1112.google.com ([64.233.166.178]:24507 "EHLO py-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933247AbXIBBmz (ORCPT ); Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:42:55 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=beta; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=gSl5OkRqKegiMNg6BRTlCi+0kQ9aC1jGq6qZttFZZCB8YwRWdNn6Pt7z3Sxfyl18h1FIcVJtUV7U0M/GfHsH1EPvZf1DgqOwdLaOh+e+LefvsTRgIaEV3jYmbfd/ROPi2F8L0VToZmbxAPyIPM9qjJACaupLQovrP30L5e2cndE= Message-ID: <43e72e890709011842m213b590ds141deb9657b979e7@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:42:54 -0400 From: "Luis R. Rodriguez" To: "Constantine A. Murenin" Subject: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Cc: "Jeff Garzik" , "Jason Dixon" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jirislaby@gmail.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070901215225.GM9260@stusta.de> <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE@dixongroup.net> <46DA1315.9060002@garzik.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 9/1/07, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must > > > remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your > > > license, but the original copyright and license permission remains > > > intact. Many other entities (Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc) have used BSD > > > code and have no problem understanding this. Why is this so difficult > > > for the Linux brain share to absorb? > > > > Why is it so difficult to understand dual licensing? > > Maybe because Reyk's code was never dual-licensed? We asked SFLC to work with us to make sure that everyone's copyrights were respected in the right places, and that the licenses various developers wanted for their copyrights were implemented correctly. The patch I sent implements SFLC's suggestions in that regard. Luis