On 2015-10-26 04:50, John Crispin wrote:
On 26/10/2015 10:40, Felix Kaechele wrote:
On 25/10/15 23:27, openwr...@ruggedinbox.com wrote:
I came across the source code for the broadcom
wireless AC driver in a GPL release(I won't say from where so that
they
don't get in trouble). I've attached the driver to this email.
This is not helpful.
If at all this will make developing an open source driver even harder
and more time consuming since this creates a similar situation to what
ReactOS developers got into after the Windows source code leak
happened:
They had to have their code audited that no code from the illegally
leaked proprietary Windows code made it into the open source React OS
code (google for Clean room design if you want to know more about
that).
Furthermore you created a situation in which the OpenWrt community as
well as other providers donating capacity to the community for
carrying
the mailing list involuntarily distribute or mirror this proprietary
code.
This is where your good intentions likely will yield bad results.
intentionally breaking the license/law is not "good intentions" the
fact
that he used a anonymous remailer just shows that he knew what he was
doing is wrong.
Regards,
Felix
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As far as I'm concerned I simply downloaded a publicly available GPL
tarball that contained this code, if it was not supposed to have been
publicly distributed that is an issue between the vendor and broadcom.
While this may be a legal gray area(which is why I used an anonymous
mailer) I don't consider making people aware of code like this to be
morally "wrong". I consider the withholding of critical firmware source
code such as this to be "conversion" where the manufacturer is denying
me control of my property(which is often an attempt to force me to
purchase new equipment by not providing updates).
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