On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:22:28AM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > > Took them long enough. I didn't think Sam was working on Linux drivers. > > Maybe they really mean FBSD... you know because there's only one real open > > source OS. (at least in the mind of the masses) > > The Linux code is a port of the FreeBSD driver and related code (e.g. > 802.11 layer). The (secondary) goal was to generate cross-platform 802.11 > support that could be developed from both/all sides (netbsd is in the > process of picking up my changes so eventually it'll be 3-sided).
Sam, I still do not understand how three-sided development is supposed to work. Once Linux has adopted the sources under the GPL option, it is not possible for *BSD to use the Linux sources under BSD license, because the GPL is more restrictive than the BSD license. In this way, the license is a one-way street to GPL, which is why it does not sit well with some *BSD developers. It seems that the license mis-serves the goal of facilitating sharing between BSD and Linux, if the sharing is one-way. If you intended for the co-development to occur at a conceptual level, with the tri-partite 802.11 alliance taking ideas from each other, not lines of code, then wouldn't it have sufficed to release the code once under license acceptable to each of the BSDs, and once under GPL? Dave -- David Young OJC Technologies [EMAIL PROTECTED] Urbana, IL * (217) 278-3933 -- general wireless list, a bawug thing <http://www.bawug.org/> [un]subscribe: http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
