On Thursday 05 April 2007 19:00, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > No. I'd like _you_ to make "your" developers aware of the issue > > that you'd like to have the openbsd tree clean, in the first place. > > I make developers aware. Marcus was aware. He made a few mistakes. > You don't believe him. > > That's fine. We don't believe your public flogging was the kind and > right way to approach this whole problem. > > But the issue is over. The code has been entirely deleted. > > I hope you are happy. I am sure Marcus is not happy, because he's > thrown away about 800 hours of hobby work. But it is easier for him > to just abandon this, based on the strength of your initial mail.
I'm sorry if the mail sounded too strong. This was not intentional. But I think I made a great effort to make this clear, though. I am not out for blood. > I mean, if I were him, why would I bother going on, To get your broadcom cards working on bsd?? Really, there's no single other reason to write a driver. > when there are > accusations about copyright being based on white space, variable > names which are the same, or simple "save the registers" algorithms > which you feel are too similar. I did _never_ base by arguments on these things. I explicitely marked these things in the mail as being EXAMPLES for the most obvious 1:1 copying going on. > I'd say he did the right thing to give up. Only if you don't need a Broadcom wireless driver. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
