On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 08:27 -0400, Ryan VanMiddlesworth wrote: > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:46 PM, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > What was bizarre and obtuse about my comments? Is it wrong for me to > > wish to have peopel abide by the license of my contribution to the > > kernel? > > I'm not particularly interested in dragging this out, but you asked, > so here's how I saw it go down: > > The guy shows up and helpfully posts directions and files for getting > Moblin's wireless working on one of the most popular netbooks out > there (the Dell Mini 9). We all know Broadcom has a misguided policy > on copyright, and what most people would have said is, "Thanks for > your effort, but you're not technically allowed to distribute that > driver because it contains a binary blob." Case closed. > > Instead, you decide to drag out some sort of passive-aggressive public > shaming ritual over the course of several emails. What was > particularly annoying to me is that usually this sort of treatment is > reserved for new users of open source software (sadly). You, however, > decided it was a necessary tactic in dealing with some poor guy who is > simply trying to contribute to the project.
Ryan, I appreciate the support. I do. But I'm not so naive to not have known what Greg was going on about from the get go. Yes, his passive aggressive approach was a strange one to take. I simply played along getting him to spell it out hoping as many people would get to nab the drivers along the way. I certainly took no offense to his request. He has made significant contributions to the Linux kernel that we all love to use and is entitled to make the request under the terms of the license. That's why I took it down without any protest. The finger of blame here is easy to point to Greg, but if you follow it through it should go all the way back to Broadcom. There's a howto for those of use unfortunate enough to have a broadcom driver issue, hopefully it's easy to follow. If anyone has suggestions for changes to the HowTo I'm all ears. Kind Regards, -- Glen Gray <[email protected]> Digital Depot, Thomas Street Software Engineering Manager Dublin 8, Ireland Lincor Solutions Ltd. Ph: +353 (0) 1 4893682 _______________________________________________ Moblin dev Mailing List [email protected] To manage or unsubscribe from this mailing list visit: https://lists.moblin.org/mailman/listinfo/dev or your user account on http://moblin.org once logged in. For more information on the Moblin Developer Mailing lists visit: http://moblin.org/community/mailing-lists
