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 21:43:31 -0400 Message-ID: <46DA1543.7030505@garzik.org> References: <200709010140.l811eq9H005896@cvs.openbsd.org> <46D99FB7.6030505@garzik.org> <20070901205457.GK9260@stusta.de> <20070901215225.GM9260@stusta.de> <3A831845-B630-42AD-B52F-DC9EA2060BAE@dixongroup.net> <46DA1315.9060002@garzik.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jason Dixon , 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: "Constantine A. Murenin" Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-wireless-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik wrote: >> 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? > > Maybe because Reyk's code was never dual-licensed? And yet a good portion of Theo's response, in particular his accusations of Alan Cox exhorting people to break the law, were directly related to dual licensing. Jeff