On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:29:52 +0200, "Marc Balmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Diana Eichert wrote: > > > bcw(4) is gone > > Marcus Glocker, [EMAIL PROTECTED], knows a big deal about wireless > LANs. He has been involved in many of our wirelesss driver, he has also > written applications for wireless applications like rtunes. He wrote > the nostromo webserver. He is certainly the person who knows how to > write original code. > > When it comes to bcw, a piece of hardware for that no documentation > exists, he decided to use the docs the linux folks have. > > He began a rewrite of a bcw driver, inspired by the work of the linux > folks. His driver was not working yet, to give him a headstart, he used > some code of the linux folks with the clear intent to replace it with > his own. Just to make sure this shit works.
When I read Michael Buesch's original e-mail, I figured this out. He was probably just using it for testing purposes. I do not call myself a programmer. I just know enough scripting to get my job done, but even I figured this out. It doesn't take a genius. > > To ease his work, and to let others in our group to step in in his > efforts, he committet it to our work area which we call cvs. A CVS is not by any stretch of the imagination a public repository of code for anyone to use. So no code was released hence no license violation. It doesn't take a genius. > > The linux folks tooks this as the grounds to ride attacks agains Marcus, > claiming license violations. > > Marcus, devoting his spare time to OpenBSD decided that this is > kindergarten and best left to the Linux amateurs and deleted his driver > from the OpenBSD cvs tree. > > Now everyone has won, the Linux people, Broadcom and the OpenBSD users. > > Thank you, Linux BCW developers! > <AntiLinuxRant> Forget it. I was annoyed by the "GPL" Nazis and was going to write a long diatribe, but what's the point. I would either be preaching to the choir or just ignored as another one of those people who "just don't get it". </AntiLinuxRant>
