On Thursday 05 April 2007 22:56, Theo de Raadt wrote: > It makes me happy to show that I have empathy for a situation where > someone who puts hundreds of hours of work in as a hobby, and to > defend that person. It makes me extremely unhappy that I have to do > so, and that some other people think this is a non-event. We put THOUSANDS of hours of work into bcm43xx and you simply relicense it without permission. Your point being? > > > <rest deleted, because the above line is so important> > > > > Snipped? I presume, then, you admit you are misrepresenting others' > > opinions in this thread. > > No, there was a side discussion about whitespace and variable naming, > and even algorithms covered by the GPL. Gimme a break. These were > essentially claimed by some of the examples shown by Michael. Go look > carefully. You simply don't get it. These were EXAMPLES of why we think the code was copied 1:1. This has NOTHING to do with copyright law at this point. It simply shows: "Oh look, you named that variable or that function exactly like I did, although the specs did not suggest naming. Unlikely to be so by coincidence." > That said, there were more real issues, and those have been dealt with > in a reply from Marcus, plus the driver now being deleted. I want to point out again that I _never_ made it a requirement to delete the driver. I offered ways to handle it by going through the code and judging on a case-by-case base of what can stay and what has to be rewritten by you. > The Italian dude in particular was complaining bitterly in private > mail about the whitespace similarities... good grief, not whitespace > similarities. How SCO of him. Yeah. Must be coincidence that you typed whitespace exactly like we did. I'm sure this didn't come from copying, but from coincidence. [Irony may be found in the mail above] -- 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
