Re: Atheros Drivers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Here's the full story, people seemed to be wondering if the drivers were open/had binary blobs etc. - Original Message Subject: [FSF] Atheros releases free software wireless driver; no binary blobs Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:27:14 -0400 From: Joshua Gay [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Atheros Communications has announced the release of free software wireless drivers for ath9k. The ath9k driver requires no proprietary binary blobs and works on several chipsets and over a dozen wireless devices. This increased support of wireless drivers by Atheros is a major step toward our vision of a laptop that runs only free software and that boots on top of a free bios, says Peter Brown, executive director of the FSF. The release of the ath9k driver comes shortly after Atheros hired Luis Rodriguez and Jouni Malinen, two important developers in the free software wireless driver community. The ath9k are now seeking inclusion in the Linux kernel. For more information on supported devices and chipsets visit http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/net/wireless/cards.html#ath9k. More information about hardware that is compatible with fully free operating systems can be found in the FSF's hardware database, at http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw. To learn more about the FSF's vision of an all free laptop, read the paper The road to hardware free from restrictions: How hardware vendors can help the free software community, http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/how_hardware_vendors_can_help.html. ___ info-fsf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-fsf iD4DBQFIjpTwmBTzXUpNYqQRAikYAKCglgII/mbd79hGXIeAGuHY0mnLGgCYlTG4 VSCjuyQHfoYmC0nZ90EB6A== =bVhm -END PGP SIGNATURE-
Re: Can you contribute code under anonymous under ISC License?
My guess would be that the content is released into the public domain since you can't sue because there is no proof that you are the copyright holder. Comrade RIngo Kamens On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IANAL... On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:43:09AM +1000, Sunnz wrote: | Hi, just wondering what's your opinion on this... | | If one were to release some code under an ISC or BSD-like 2 clause | license, but under the name of anonymous, would it effectively as if | it was released as public domain? Well .. as the author of a work, you are the copyright holder to it. If you then release it under some permissive license, you basically give up some of the rights that copyright gives you, granting others a license to copy, modify and/or redistribute etc. Using ISC or BSD-like licenses, you indicate that you want to keep some (very basic) but give up most rights. So you want the world to know that *you* want to retain some rights but not who you are ? That does not compute. Who wants to retain those rights exactly ? Seems to me like a legal can of worms you do not want to open. In answer to your question, my guess would be no. I would guess that effectively you've given up no rights whatsoever and that the license is void if it lists an alias or 'anonymous' as the creator of the work. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- [++-]+++.+++[---].+++[+ +++-].++[-]+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
Re: Can you contribute code under anonymous under ISC License?
That wouldn't work because the original author would be able to prove he was the owner of the copyright. Comrade RIngo Kamens On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 4:16 PM, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 04:09:37PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote: | My guess would be that the content is released into the public domain | since you can't sue because there is no proof that you are the | copyright holder. | Comrade RIngo Kamens Let me just steal some code somewhere, relicense it and release it as 'anonymous'. *poof* .. it's public domain because you can't sue ? That's a bit too easy... Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- [++-]+++.+++[---].+++[+ +++-].++[-]+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
Re: Can you contribute code under anonymous under ISC License?
Sorry, I should have been more clear in my statement. What I was saying is that if the original author of the work published it anonymously, he would not be able to sue because he would not be able to prove he was the original author and copyright holder of the work. Comrade Ringo Kamens On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:11 PM, Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/22/08, Ringo Kamens [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My guess would be that the content is released into the public domain since you can't sue because there is no proof that you are the copyright holder. He absolutely can sue. He says I don't know who this anonymous person is, but they copied my code. And now the people using that code are screwed.
Re: Can you contribute code under anonymous under ISC License?
Said individual would have to be able to prove he originally made the content available. I guess this could theoretically be possible ie if server logs verify it or something along those lines. Things to consider: 1. If said individual posted code anonymously, wouldn't that indicate they would like to remain anonymous? I think the court would also question why he posted the code anonymously and his proof would certainly come under some scrutiny. Comrade Ringo Kamens On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 5:23 PM, Paul de Weerd [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 05:18:51PM -0400, Ringo Kamens wrote: | Sorry, I should have been more clear in my statement. What I was | saying is that if the original author of the work published it | anonymously, he would not be able to sue because he would not be able | to prove he was the original author and copyright holder of the work. Well .. why not ? He can later say : I was this anonymous guy, here is $PROOF, you are in violation of my license, now pay me $$$. Cheers, Paul 'WEiRD' de Weerd -- [++-]+++.+++[---].+++[+ +++-].++[-]+.--.[-] http://www.weirdnet.nl/
OpenBSD 4.3 amd64 in Qemu: Can't Find Disks
I'm having some troubles getting OpenBSD 4.3 amd64 (running from install43.iso) to run in Qemu. Here's the command I'm using: qemu-system-x86_64 -hda disk -cdrom install43.iso -boot d -net nic,model=pcnet -net user I googled a lot and found that adding -no-kqemu can help but it didn't. The strange thing is that when it first boots up, OpenBSD sees my drive QEMU HARDDISK ATA-7 HARD-DISK (5000 MB). If I hit enter to boot I go through the options and say yes I'm sure I want to install and then it tells me No disks found and drops me to a shell. My host machine is Ubuntu Gutsy. Has anybody else heard of similar problems or found any solutions to this? Any help is appreciated, Comrade Ringo Kamens
