On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:45:06PM +0100, Paul de Weerd wrote:

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> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:18:16PM +0000, Jeff Rollin wrote:

> | On 14/02/07, Han Boetes  wrote:

> | >

> | > Artur Grabowski wrote:

> | > > "Stephan A. Rickauer"  writes:

> | > > > I did read your FAQ but I can't see how it rebuts what has

> | > > > just been said. You seem to be happy with signing NDAs. If the

> | > > > result is a readable and understandable GPL'ed driver,

> | > > > companies will be even less motivated to release programming

> | > > > documentation. This will lead to a GPL-lock-in since you

> | > > > simply replace the vendor not willing to share specifications

> | > > > with an NDA'ed GPL developer not willing to share those, but

> | > > > GPL code only.

> | > >

> | > > Which is exactly what the GPL people want since that's the whole

> | > > point of the license. Otherwise they wouldn't be using the

> | > > GPL. Duh.

> | >

> | > Nah, RMS doesn't want this. A lot of `GPL people' don't want this

> | > at all.

> | >

> | > This deal is meant to divide.

> | >

> |

> | And this discussion isn't?  There are already plenty of divisions within

> the

> | FOSS world - between the F and OS of FOSS, between Linux and BSD, between

> | the various BSDs. It's not as if TdR started OpenBSD to continue

> | contributing to NetBSD, is it?

> |

> | And yet when a driver is released under the BSD licence, which conflicts

> | with the GPL, when do we hear the bitching about it on the BSD side? Wait,

> | what's that? Oh, we don't?

>

> When vendors open up their docs, all profit. When one signs an NDA, in

> the end, no one profits.

>

> Besides, what is keeping Linux from including BSD licensed drivers ? I

> was under the impression that they have done this in the past. How

> does a BSD licensed driver conflict with the GPL ? I've heard that the

> two-clause BSD license should be compatbile with the GPL...

oh come fucking on!

do not start this bsd vs gpl crap again!

cu

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