On Friday 06 April 2007 00:54, Gene Heskett wrote: > Now having read the full thread, and considering Theo's widely known > personality, then add in that I was once chastized for asking what I > considered to be a valid question at the time, by none other than > Michael, I must say that both of you need to come to the table with > productive ideas and quit acting like children.
The copyright violation issue is solved. I stopped responsing to the discussion. The issue is solved for me. If they want to have a broadcom driver in their openbsd they have to either write it on their own or contact us to get permission to use code. It's their turn. Although I don't expect them to contact us. > Did you, Theo, ever consider that the refusable to cross license the other > code mentioned, just might have a teeny wee bit of a bearing on how > Micheal would respond when, after requesting some BSD code and being told > to go fish, that Michael in turn might be more than a little upset to > find his code, essentialy verbatum but sans credits in a BSD cvs repo? > > I think Michael reacted relatively peacefully considering that the code is > in the wild now, without his copyright. You forgot to CC Theo ;) > Think about it, both of you, and then do the right thing for both > distributions. IMO, deleting the offending code was, in this case not > the optimum path to have traveled, particularly since bsd needs that > code. There are a couple dozen boatloads of machines out there using > this chipset. Including a lappy I bought a year ago. I am 100% sure that was the worst decision they could do. But I did not force this on them in any way. It was their decision. And I respect that. -- Greetings Michael. _______________________________________________ Bcm43xx-dev mailing list [email protected] https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/bcm43xx-dev
