On Thursday 13 September 2007 16:19, Theo de Raadt wrote:
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> > > Reyk can take them to court over this, but he must do it before the
> > > year 2047.
> >
> > Except he took most of it from Sam Leffler who said it is OK to license
> > under the GPL. So while it's good to see you defending your code, it was
> > not entirely yours to start with.
>
> Reyk's work (the replacement HAL) is in seperate files -- it is a
> seperately copyrighted work.

OK, I see that Reyk wrote it after Sam would not release it. I see that Sam 
seemed happy to dual license it. Though it looks clear that Jiri Slaby was 
wrong in stripping the license, which subsequently was not accepted by any 
repository.

This action does not however represent the "GPL community" from what I can 
see. Stealing work from one or the other has not been evident other than some 
people being confused as to what came from where. Which is the chicken and 
which is the egg kind of thing.

It is generalities which has bunches of people up in arms which of course 
happens when there is not enough specificity. It is pretty safe to say that 
most people are honest, but where misunderstanding can occur, it will.


-- 

Steve Szmidt

"They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety 
deserve neither liberty nor safety."
                                Benjamin Franklin