[Please stop this. This doesn't lead anywhere. But as long as you need answers, I'll try to provide you with them.] On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 19:12:06 -0600 Theo de Raadt <deraadt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Copyrighted whitespaces and variable names, you mean, right? > > > > No. > > What does that "No." mean. Are you being obtuse? I am quoting you: [...] > If whitespacing and variable names do not matter for the larger issue > at hand, then I suggest you don't bring it up. Why would you bring it > up? Because you want to accuse. You don't want to see these issues > solved in the right way (whatever that will be). You want to accuse, > by bringing up whitespace. Why else would you bring up whitespace? I don't want to accuse anybody. Please see the context. I was trying to explain why I think bcw developers went public about this issue even before we noticed about it, and this seems to imply direct copy. (But hey, I'm not against direct copy, even! I just agree with Michael about this.) > It should be obvious to anyone who actually goes and reads it, that > the remainder Marcus' driver shows that he IS TRYING TO TAKE A GOOD > FAITH APPROACH TOWARDS LICENSING. I _think_ and hope this. > Michael's initial overly public statemen did not dispute Marcus > obviously tried to do the right thing, but your agressiveness DOES > dispute it. Your sentence: > > > Not even trying to hide that. > > Is exceedingly agressive. If you have an agenda here, please make > it clear. I'm really sorry if this has been perceived as aggressive. I don't want to be aggressive. See above, for the reason why I wrote this sentence. > Right about now I think you (Stefano) don't understand that every word > you say is leading certain people to abandon even trying to write an > alternative Broadcom driver. I can't really agree with this. I think you should at least explain why. > And ... if what you really want is that another Broadcom driver does > not come into existance, then just say so. If that is your agenda, > say so loud and clear, so that we can know. My agenda: https://lists.berlios.de/pipermail/bcm43xx-dev/2005-December/000816.html -- Ciao Stefano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
