On Thursday 05 April 2007 02:29, Theo de Raadt wrote: > > Who is mean here? Again, we aren't out for blood. I don't care for who is > > mean here. But if you do, you should be a bit more careful before insulting > > people. > > OH i get it. I'm insulting you, but you guys are not mean by taking it > widely public. No private mail received anyone. I'm sorry. This GPL violation is too obvious. Compare the code. Many functions are 1:1 copied. The author of bcw can't tell me that he did not intentionally violate the GPL and our copyright. > If Marcus Glocker just gives up now, and aborts his efforts, I would > not be surprised. I'd be a bit dissapointed but then it is just the > increasingly rare Broadcom chipset. Marcus Glocker is free to contact us to get a clean relicensing agreement on the code. I wrote that in the first mail. > If he quit, I would understand his position completely, based on the > first contact with him about this issue BEING A PUBLIC DRAG THROUGH > THE MUD BY YOU GUYS. Your code is public. We respond in your public GPL violation in a public mail. > This infighting between two teams trying to support the same chipset > is a complete mockery of the publicness of the original reverse > engineering effort. My guess is that Michael is thinking very > carefully about whether starting the discussion in public was the > right thing to do, but I am very sure that Stefano jumping in to lob a > second volley of mud helps noone's cause, especially Michael's cause. > Stefano, if you want this resolved nicely, I suggest you think before > you send more mail. Please don't attack Stefano. This leads to nothing. He is also a copyright holder of large amounts of bcm43xx code. > > Maintaining whitespace and variable names. > > Copyrighted whitespaces and variable names, you mean, right? We are not talking about variable names of whitespaces. We are talking about copied code and algorithms. The examples I brought were just examples. -- Greetings Michael. - 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
