Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

From: Adrian Bunk
Date: Sat Sep 01 2007 - 17:16:54 EST


On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 10:54:57PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote:
> > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing.
> > >
> > > What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual licensing?
> >
> > Reyk's code was never dual licensed, so it's not like it even matters
> > to the original dispute.

Oh, and if you look at the OpenBSD CVS you see versions 4 months old
with dozens of contributions by Reyk and with:

/* $OpenBSD: ath.c,v 1.63 2007/05/09 16:41:14 reyk Exp $ */
/* $NetBSD: ath.c,v 1.37 2004/08/18 21:59:39 dyoung Exp $ */

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cu
Adrian

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