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Re: OpenBSD bcw: Possible GPL license violation issues

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On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 16:22 -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote:

> > "What if Broadcom decides to take our LO measure state machine and
> > put it into the original driver? (The Rev Engineers told me they have
> > a very different weird solution for this in their code).
> > I really don't want to see this happen."
> 
> For the record, I want to warn you that you CANNOT COPYRIGHT
> A STATE MACHINE, which is what the above sentence implies.

That was in a different discussion, quoted out of context. Another part
of Michael's email gives some context:

> bcw_phy_lo_g_state()
> This exactly matches bcm43xx, although the specs only have an abstract
> description and diagram of the state machine.

Hence, it'd be only fair to say that he did, in fact, talk about the
expression/implementation of the state machine.

johannes

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