From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: "Jonathan A. George" <jageorge@austin.rr.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: "GPL weasels and the atheros stink"
Date: Sun, 02 Sep 2007 14:46:53 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46DB051D.3010008@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46DAF70E.9060800@austin.rr.com>
Jonathan A. George wrote:
> Question #1: Is it _ethical_ (legality aside) to take someone else's
> actively maintained work (for example an OpenBSD driver) and make
> changes which can not be shared/used by the original developer/maintainer?
This happens all the time. It's called a fork.
Forks happen for good reasons, bad reasons, dumb reasons, and smart reasons.
Sometimes the useful changes can be shared back, and that's a good thing
[for that situation].
Sometimes changes cannnot be shared back, and that's also a good thing
[for that situation].
> Question #2: Is it _technically beneficial_ to branch an OSS work (for
> example an OpenBSD driver) in such a way as to diminish the ability to
> share contributions between projects?
Can only be answered on a case-by-case basis.
The reality OF THE CODE is such that *BSD and Linux share good SOLUTIONS
quite often. That's a benefit of open source. And that's a good thing.
Jeff
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-02 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 17:46 Jonathan A. George
2007-09-02 18:31 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-09-02 19:05 ` Jonathan A. George
2007-09-02 19:35 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-05 6:05 ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-02 18:46 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
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