Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues

[Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>]

On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:05, Theo de Raadt wrote:
> > He should start to contact us to get relicensing permission from
> > us to speed up bcw development and stay legal.
> 
> What bullshit.  He should contact you, when he does not known that
> he's been found to have made mistakes?
> 
> Do you even know the word 'mistake'?
> 
> If you make a mistake, sometimes you don't know it has been made
> until someone tells you that you have made a mistake.

I can't see how you can copy code from bcm43xx to bcw by mistake.
Really, I want to explicitely state that in my opinion the 1:1
copying was going on intentionally. This is impossible to be
a mistake.
Theo, please _do_ compare the code of bcw and bcm43xx. You will find
tons of 1:1 copied code.

> And you are surprised about what has happened?

Yes I am. I thought you were really interrested in having a Broadcom
wireless driver for openbsd.

> Are you living in 
> a cave?  Are you not human?  Don't you know how people behave when
> they are publically attacked, and not treated with respectful private
> discussion to point out their mistakes?

This was not a mistake. bcw developers obviously intentionally
copied our code. If you read the bcw commit logs and compare
bcm43xx and bcw code you will see what I mean. Yes, _really_ do this!
Compare it and you'll get my point.

> His deletion of the code has happened for one reason and one reason
> alone -- your way of trying to handle this.

I don't agree to this.
This sounds more like he lost interrest in getting a clean Broadcom
wireless driver.

-- 
Greetings Michael.