Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

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To: Constantine A. Murenin <mureninc@...>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@...>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>, <linux-kernel@...>, <linux-wireless@...>, <netdev@...>, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...>
Date: Sunday, September 2, 2007 - 6:36 am

> - If you receive ISC or BSD licensed code, you may not delete the

You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove
the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there
was permission to do so.


Your understanding isn't quite right. One of many things you may get with
dual licensed code is the right to pick a licence from several choices,
you may also get the right to remove some choices from the recipient.

A work that combines GPL and BSD licensed material is not the same as a
work which says I may choose between two licences. If both licences must
always apply (which is a perfectly possible condition to put in a
licence) then putting such a "both" GPL/BSD licence piece of code into
OpenBSD would require any OpenBSD distributed containing it was GPL
licenced when conveyed, which I am *very* sure is not the intent.

Thus what you appear to be doing by putting the ath5k C code in OpenBSD is
conveying it under the BSD licence (making a choice between the two
offered) and conveying a right for parties down the chain to convey it
under one of the licences only.

And as we've already established the header files are quite different.


Doesn't mean its not somewhat rude but illegal and rude are two very
different things.

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Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 12:48 pm)
RE: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, David Schwartz, (Sun Sep 2, 10:01 pm)
RE: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, David Schwartz, (Sun Sep 2, 10:01 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Sep 3, 4:58 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Pavel Machek, (Thu Sep 6, 3:12 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, David Schwartz, (Mon Sep 3, 5:21 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeff Garzik, (Mon Sep 3, 5:47 am)
RE: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, David Schwartz, (Mon Sep 3, 5:54 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Sep 3, 5:03 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel Hazelton, (Sun Sep 2, 11:11 pm)
RE: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, David Schwartz, (Mon Sep 3, 5:48 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel Hazelton, (Mon Sep 3, 2:01 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon Sep 3, 2:26 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel Hazelton, (Mon Sep 3, 3:04 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, James Bruce, (Tue Sep 4, 4:50 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel Hazelton, (Tue Sep 4, 12:59 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Krzysztof Halasa, (Mon Sep 3, 3:33 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel Hazelton, (Mon Sep 3, 8:19 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Krzysztof Halasa, (Tue Sep 4, 9:27 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel Hazelton, (Tue Sep 4, 1:13 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Krzysztof Halasa, (Wed Sep 5, 8:16 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Chris Friesen, (Tue Sep 4, 3:28 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, linux-os (Dick Johnson), (Tue Sep 4, 4:28 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Michael Poole, (Tue Sep 4, 3:44 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Daniel Hazelton, (Tue Sep 4, 7:08 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jacob Meuser, (Sat Sep 1, 4:57 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeff Garzik, (Sat Sep 1, 1:21 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 1:37 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 1, 4:54 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Sam Leffler, (Sat Sep 1, 6:03 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 1, 6:29 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 5:27 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 1, 5:52 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jason Dixon, (Sat Sep 1, 8:36 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jonathan Gray, (Sat Sep 1, 10:22 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Alan Cox, (Sun Sep 2, 6:18 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 1, 9:55 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sun Sep 2, 1:09 am)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeff Garzik, (Sat Sep 1, 9:34 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 9:39 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Casey Dahlin, (Sat Sep 1, 9:58 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jason Dixon, (Sat Sep 1, 10:44 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Al Viro, (Sat Sep 1, 10:06 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeff Garzik, (Sat Sep 1, 9:43 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Luis R. Rodriguez, (Sat Sep 1, 9:42 pm)
Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Al Viro, (Sat Sep 1, 9:53 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 7:29 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 1, 8:09 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 8:53 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Alan Cox, (Sun Sep 2, 6:36 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Igor Sobrado, (Sun Sep 2, 7:20 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 2, 7:50 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Igor Sobrado, (Sun Sep 2, 8:28 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Igor Sobrado, (Sun Sep 2, 9:00 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Krzysztof Halasa, (Sun Sep 2, 9:57 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeff Garzik, (Sun Sep 2, 10:11 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Igor Sobrado, (Sun Sep 2, 11:58 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Matthew Jacob, (Sun Sep 2, 2:23 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Sep 2, 9:12 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Jeff Garzik, (Sun Sep 2, 8:36 am)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Luis R. Rodriguez, (Sat Sep 1, 7:48 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 8:11 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 1, 5:16 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Constantine A. Murenin, (Sat Sep 1, 5:51 pm)
Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing, Adrian Bunk, (Sat Sep 1, 6:06 pm)