From: "Constantine A. Murenin" <mureninc@gmail.com>
To: "Theo de Raadt" <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org>
Cc: "Bob Beck" <beck@bofh.cns.ualberta.ca>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, misc@openbsd.org
Subject: Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2007 21:52:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <f34ca13c0709011852w7f2c14cevdd08582a0ba5ddf5@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200709020036.l820aaNf014181@cvs.openbsd.org>
On 01/09/07, Theo de Raadt <deraadt@cvs.openbsd.org> wrote:
> When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of
> them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that
> is OK.
>
> When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door
> against changes moving back, by putting a GPL license on guard.
>
> Why does our brother Linux take a file that is 90% BSD licensed,
> and refuse to let us see the 10% he adds?
Indeed, it's upsetting that people like Luis Rodriguez push for the
lawyers to be involved to (fight?) an open source project. Why, may I
ask?
Why Luis puts the phrase "legal hell" next to entirely free software?
[0] Why is he trying to go against the BSD community, which gave him
the entire HAL framework for the driver in question?
Best regards,
Constantine.
[0] http://marc.info/?l=linux-wireless&m=118857712529898&w=2
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-09-02 1:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-09-02 0:02 Bob Beck
2007-09-02 0:36 ` Theo de Raadt
2007-09-02 1:22 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 1:52 ` Constantine A. Murenin [this message]
2007-09-02 2:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 11:40 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-02 1:32 ` Adrian Bunk
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2007-09-02 14:47 ` Bodo Eggert
[not found] <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org>
2007-09-01 16:48 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 17:21 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-01 17:37 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 20:54 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:16 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:51 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 22:06 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 21:27 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 21:52 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 23:29 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-01 23:48 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2007-09-02 0:11 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 0:09 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 0:53 ` Constantine A. Murenin
2007-09-02 10:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 11:20 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 11:50 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 12:28 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 12:36 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 12:46 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 13:00 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 13:12 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-02 13:53 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-02 13:57 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-02 14:11 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-02 15:58 ` Igor Sobrado
2007-09-02 18:23 ` Matthew Jacob
2007-09-02 18:21 ` Al Viro
2007-09-02 12:36 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-01 22:03 ` Sam Leffler
2007-09-01 22:29 ` Adrian Bunk
2007-09-01 20:30 ` Alan Cox
2007-09-01 20:57 ` Jacob Meuser
2007-09-03 2:01 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-03 3:11 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 9:48 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-03 18:01 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 18:26 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-03 19:04 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 19:33 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-04 0:19 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-04 13:27 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-04 17:13 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-04 19:28 ` Chris Friesen
2007-09-04 19:44 ` Michael Poole
2007-09-04 23:08 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-04 20:28 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2007-09-05 12:16 ` Krzysztof Halasa
2007-09-04 8:50 ` James Bruce
2007-09-04 16:59 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-09-03 8:58 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-03 9:03 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-03 9:21 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-03 9:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-03 9:54 ` David Schwartz
2007-09-06 19:12 ` Pavel Machek
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