Diana Eichert wrote:
> bcw(4) is gone
Marcus Glocker, mglocker@openbsd.org, knows a big deal about wireless
LANs. He has been involved in many of our wirelesss driver, he has also
written applications for wireless applications like rtunes. He wrote
the nostromo webserver. He is certainly the person who knows how to
write original code.When it comes to bcw, a piece of hardware for that no documentation
exists, he decided to use the docs the linux folks have.He began a rewrite of a bcw driver, inspired by the work of the linux
folks. His driver was not working yet, to give him a headstart, he used
some code of the linux folks with the clear intent to replace it with
his own. Just to make sure this shit works.To ease his work, and to let others in our group to step in in his
efforts, he committet it to our work area which we call cvs.The linux folks tooks this as the grounds to ride attacks agains Marcus,
claiming license violations.Marcus, devoting his spare time to OpenBSD decided that this is
kindergarten and best left to the Linux amateurs and deleted his driver
from the OpenBSD cvs tree.Now everyone has won, the Linux people, Broadcom and the OpenBSD users.
Thank you, Linux BCW developers!
| david | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
| Linus Torvalds | Linux 2.6.27-rc5 |
| Greg KH | [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 |
| David Miller | Slow DOWN, please!!! |
git: | |
| Jarek Poplawski | [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock(). |
| David Miller | [GIT]: Networking |
| Gerrit Renker | [PATCH 27/37] dccp: Integration of dynamic feature activation - part 2 (server side) |
| Natalie Protasevich | [BUG] New Kernel Bugs |
