On 26/10/2015 10:40, Felix Kaechele wrote: > On 25/10/15 23:27, openwr...@ruggedinbox.com wrote: >> I came across the source code for the broadcom >> wireless AC driver in a GPL release(I won't say from where so that they >> don't get in trouble). I've attached the driver to this email. > > This is not helpful. > > If at all this will make developing an open source driver even harder > and more time consuming since this creates a similar situation to what > ReactOS developers got into after the Windows source code leak happened: > They had to have their code audited that no code from the illegally > leaked proprietary Windows code made it into the open source React OS > code (google for Clean room design if you want to know more about that). > > Furthermore you created a situation in which the OpenWrt community as > well as other providers donating capacity to the community for carrying > the mailing list involuntarily distribute or mirror this proprietary code. > > This is where your good intentions likely will yield bad results.
intentionally breaking the license/law is not "good intentions" the fact that he used a anonymous remailer just shows that he knew what he was doing is wrong. > > Regards, > Felix > _______________________________________________ > openwrt-devel mailing list > openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org > https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel > _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel