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

From: Igor Sobrado
Date: Sun Sep 02 2007 - 11:58:57 EST


On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Jeff Garzik wrote:

Krzysztof Halasa wrote:
WRT Atheros driver I'd probably leave the thing as is (i.e., BSD/GPL
= in fact BSD), unless something like 50+% of the code is rewritten -
it's mostly their hard work after all, isn't it? Not legal
requirement, though.

Yes. This deserves to be reinforced:

There is definite value in sharing the ath5k HAL between OpenBSD and Linux.

Of course. Sharing knowledge and efforts can only improve both the GPL and BSD licensed code. It is important in all cases, but becomes critical when support from manufacturers is limited or even non existent. In these cases, shared efforts are required to write successful code.

Cheers,
Igor.
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