I recognize that writeup about the Atheros / Linux / SFLC story is a

bit complex, so I wrote a very simple explanation to someone, and they

liked it's clarity so much that they asked me to post it for everyone.

Here it is (with a few more changes)
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starting premise:
   you can already use the code as it is
steps taken:
1. pester developer for a year to get it under another license.

   - get told no, repeatedly
2. climb over ethical fence
3. remove his license

   - get caught, look a bit stupid
4. wrap his license with your own

   - get caught, look really stupid
5. assert copyright under author's license, without original work

   - get caught, look even more stupid
Right now the wireless linux developers -- aided by an entire team of

evidently unskilled lawyers -- are at step 5, and we don't know what

will happen next.  We wait, to see what will happen.
Reyk can take them to court over this, but he must do it before the

year 2047.