On Jul 26, 2008, Gordon Messmer <yinyang@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Theo continued to complain about the lack of cooperation between the > Linux driver authors and the original OpenBSD developers. The problem > that he perceived was that the Linux driver developers created a > derived work, and the code that *they* contributed to the driver was > licensed only under the GPL. This made it unacceptable for the > OpenBSD developers to use the modifications from the Linux developers. And that's not because of any restriction, real or imagined, imposed by Linux developers, but rather by OpenBSD developers own decision to reject code that they couldn't distribute on their own terms. Oddly, a choice they claim to make to enable to people to do just what they're complaining about: create derived works that they can't use. Talk about consistency. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org} FSFLA Board Member ¡Sé Libre! => http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
