From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2007 21:34:13 -0400 Message-ID: <46DA1315.9060002@garzik.org> References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE@dixongroup.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: mureninc-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-kernel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-wireless-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, netdev-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, jirislaby-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, alan-qBU/x9rampVanCEyBjwyrvXRex20P6io@public.gmane.org To: Jason Dixon Return-path: In-Reply-To: <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE-a0y0GdpcbPLlcHVOVdbKLw@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Jason Dixon wrote: > Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must > remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your > license, but the original copyright and license permission remains > intact. Many other entities (Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc) have used BSD > code and have no problem understanding this. Why is this so difficult > for the Linux brain share to absorb? Why is it so difficult to understand dual licensing? Jeff