On 05/22/2009 02:56 PM, Glen Gray wrote:
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,
What I simply don't understand here is why Greg doesn't sue Broadcom
(the root of all evil ;)) but instead he's fighting against the 'small
players' and the users who would just like to use WLAN and who have
bought some broadcom chipset. This certainly doesn't improve anything in
regards to the copyright issue except that we now have some annoyed
users more.
Cornelius
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