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

2007-09-06 Thread Pavel Machek
On Mon 2007-09-03 04:58:58, Jeff Garzik wrote: > David Schwartz wrote: > >Either license can grant you the right to distribute > >it, but how you get the > >rights to distribute has *NO* effect on the recipient. > >They receive a lawful > >copy and any rights the original author grants them > >u

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

2007-09-05 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Actually (and I think it's the same in the USA), a copyrighted work >> has an implicit "all rights reserved". A licence is just exception. > > And? The fact remains that "All Rights Reserved" means "I am reserving all > rights I do not specifically g

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

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 15:44:31 Michael Poole wrote: > Chris Friesen writes: > > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > >> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >>>Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he

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

2007-09-04 Thread linux-os \(Dick Johnson\)
On Tue, 4 Sep 2007, Chris Friesen wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: >> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> >>> Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she may have released the work un

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

2007-09-04 Thread Michael Poole
Chris Friesen writes: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: >> On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: >> >>>Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she may have released the work under, can still revoke t

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

2007-09-04 Thread Chris Friesen
Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a specific person or grou

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

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 09:27:02 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she > > may have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a > > specific person or group of people. (T

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

2007-09-04 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Tuesday 04 September 2007 04:50:34 James Bruce wrote: > Daniel Hazelton wrote: > > On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > >> Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> The fact > >>> remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of > >>> copyrigh

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

2007-09-04 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > US Copyright law. A copyright holder, regardless of what license he/she may > have released the work under, can still revoke the license for a specific > person or group of people. (There are some exceptions, but they do not apply > to the situation

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

2007-09-04 Thread James Bruce
Daniel Hazelton wrote: On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The fact remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of copyright license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. Not after the

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

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 15:33:01 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I hate to belabor the point, but you seem to be making the mistake of > > "The license applies to the copyright holder" > > Of course not. I'll take this at face value - I might have mis-

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

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I hate to belabor the point, but you seem to be making the mistake of "The > license applies to the copyright holder" Of course not. > The person holding the copyright has all the legal standing to revoke a > license grant at any time. Based on?

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

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 14:26:29 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > The fact > > remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of > > copyright > > license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. > > Not after the licenc

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

2007-09-03 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
Daniel Hazelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The fact > remains that the person making a work available under *ANY* form of > copyright > license has the right to revoke said grant of license to anyone. Not after the licence has been given and accepted (and there might be restrictions), unless

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

2007-09-03 Thread Daniel Hazelton
On Monday 03 September 2007 05:48:00 David Schwartz wrote: > > Mr. Floeter *CAN* request that his code be removed from said fork > > - his code > > is solely licensed (AFAICT and IIRC) under the BSD/ISC license > > and was only > > covered by the dual-license because it was integrated into a work t

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing]

2007-09-03 Thread Adrian Bunk
om: Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Mon, 3 Sep 2007 13:23:04 +0200 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing > > Hi! > > I just returned from vacation where I was offline for about two weeks. > So I totally mis

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing]

2007-09-03 Thread Jonathan Gray
TED] Subject: Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing Hi! I just returned from vacation where I was offline for about two weeks. So I totally missed the incidence and all the surrounding discussion. I'm just digging through many many mails in my inbox from OpenBSD users and de

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

2007-09-03 Thread David Schwartz
> > Yes, but this has to be done in writing and neither the BSD nor the GPL > > license claim to allow this. > Standard dual license texts do. > > Jeff No, they don't. They simply state that *you* may obtain the right to modify/distribute the work from either license at your option. They d

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

2007-09-03 Thread David Schwartz
> Mr. Floeter *CAN* request that his code be removed from said fork > - his code > is solely licensed (AFAICT and IIRC) under the BSD/ISC license > and was only > covered by the dual-license because it was integrated into a work that > carried said dual-license. (I'm not sure how well such a revoc

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

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Schwartz wrote: Jeff Garzik wrote: Secondary parties have the power to grant or modify rights, if delegated to them by the original author. Yes, but this has to be done in writing and neither the BSD nor the GPL license claim to allow this. Standard dual license texts do. Je

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

2007-09-03 Thread David Schwartz
Jeff Garzik wrote: > Secondary parties have the power to grant or modify rights, if > delegated > to them by the original author. Yes, but this has to be done in writing and neither the BSD nor the GPL license claim to allow this. > Relicensing and transfer of rights happens all the time. Ho

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

2007-09-03 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 3 2007 04:58, Jeff Garzik wrote: > > Relicensing and transfer of rights happens all the time. How do you think > most music gets into consumer hands? uh, p2p? :) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More

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

2007-09-03 Thread Jeff Garzik
David Schwartz wrote: Either license can grant you the right to distribute it, but how you get the rights to distribute has *NO* effect on the recipient. They receive a lawful copy and any rights the original author grants them under a license from that original author. You have no power to grant

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

2007-09-02 Thread Daniel Hazelton
(by the way, text in caps surrounded by *'s is meant to indicate vocal stress, not volume) On Sunday 02 September 2007 22:01:18 David Schwartz wrote: > > So I appear to have a > > right to convey the work under the GPL to a third party, who from me > > receives no right to use it except under th

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

2007-09-02 Thread David Schwartz
Alan Cox wrote: > The ath5k C file in question (not the headers) seems to give recipients > permission to further convey the work under a choice of two licences. Correct. > It doesn't say they must redistribute under both. Correct. They need the right to redistribute the work, and they may obt

RE: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread David Schwartz
> - If you receive dual licensed code, you may not delete the license > you don't like and then distribute it. It has to stay, because you > may not edit someone's else's license -- which is a three-part legal > document (For instance: Copyright notice, BSD, followed by GPL). This is absol

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

2007-09-02 Thread Matthew Jacob
This has been pretty interesting for me to watch as I distribute my isp driver under a dual license (at least the portions of it which are common with the *BSD and Solaris ports) that is almost identical to Sam's verbiage. I'll admit that I hadn't thought about whether redistribution included the

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

2007-09-02 Thread Al Viro
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:00:46PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: > >Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or > >they can convey to other parties the right to change the terms. The GPL > >for example does this for version selection. > > So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL co

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

2007-09-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
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. T

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

2007-09-02 Thread Bodo Eggert
Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When code is multi-licensed it must be distributed under *all* these > licensing terms concurrently. No. E.g.: If I don't agree to the GPL (or if I had violated it and therefore have lost it's privileges), I MUST NOT redistribute it under the GPL because

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

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
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 defi

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

2007-09-02 Thread Krzysztof Halasa
IANAL, but: Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL code the latter license allows a > developer to remove the GPL license itself and release a > single-licensed BSD code if other parties want to do it? Of course. If it wasn't legal, dual BSD/GPL would just b

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

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> > Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or > > they can convey to other parties the right to change the terms. The GPL > > for example does this for version selection. > > So, under a dual-licensed BSD/GPL code the latter license allows a > developer to remove the G

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

2007-09-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 03:00:46PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > >>> So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors >>> agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD >> >> Not strictly true. They can either ag

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

2007-09-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or they can convey to other parties the right

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

2007-09-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there was permission to do so. There was permission to do so from Reyk Floeter? Really? Your understanding isn't quite r

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

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> So, a multi-licensed file remains multi-licensed except when all authors > agree about a change in the licensing terms. And it is clear on the BSD Not strictly true. They can either agree to a change and issue one or they can convey to other parties the right to change the terms. The GPL for

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

2007-09-02 Thread Jeff Garzik
Igor Sobrado wrote: When code is multi-licensed it must be distributed under *all* these licensing terms concurrently. It is easy to understand. Removing (or changing) the conditions that apply to the program from the source code and documentation *without* an authorization from all the autho

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

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 13:20:27 +0200 (CEST) Igor Sobrado <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: > > You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove > > the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there > > was permission to do so.

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

2007-09-02 Thread Igor Sobrado
On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:20:27PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: Reyk code was never dual licensed! His code is under truly free licensing terms (BSD). Jiri's patch touched both files containing BSD-only code by Reyk and code Reyk contributed to leaving the

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

2007-09-02 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:20:27PM +0200, Igor Sobrado wrote: > On Sun, 2 Sep 2007, Alan Cox wrote: >> You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove >> the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there >> was permission to do so. > > There was permissio

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

2007-09-02 Thread Jan Engelhardt
On Sep 1 2007 18:36, Theo de Raadt wrote: > >When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of >them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that >is OK. For companies it's ok, but for linux people it is not? (1) You do not know how much of the modifications

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

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> - If you receive ISC or BSD licensed code, you may not delete the > license. Same principle, since the notice says so. It's the law. > Really. You can shout this all you like but you would be wrong. You can remove the licence if you have permission to do so. For the ath c files there was per

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-02 Thread Alan Cox
> co-operation. Together we advance our detective work and knowledge of > the Macintosh platforms to the good of all Macintosh users dumped" > > Alan Cox circa 1999. > > http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2007-August/027419.html > > "well I'd be quite happy to see X go GPL but I'm aware

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 01:09:18 EDT, "Constantine A. Murenin" said: > The idea here is that no patching was needed in the first place -- > most of the files are/were BSD-licensed, because they were forked from > OpenBSD. Oh, silly me. For some reason, I had it in my head that Jiri's original patch

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:55:37 +0200, Adrian Bunk said: > > > Jiri's patch would have wrongly not only removed the BSD statement from > > dual licenced files but also from not dual licenced files. > > > > This was a mistake in this patch (th

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 02 Sep 2007 03:55:37 +0200, Adrian Bunk said: > Jiri's patch would have wrongly not only removed the BSD statement from > dual licenced files but also from not dual licenced files. > > This was a mistake in this patch (that was never merged into the tree) > neither Jiri nor Alan noticed

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Jonathan Gray
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:36:24PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > > On Sep 1, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> OK, I begin to understand this, there seem to be three different types >> of files changed by Jiri's patch: >> 1. dual licenced files planned to make GPL-only >> 2. previously dual l

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sep 1, 2007, at 9:58 PM, Casey Dahlin wrote: Suppose you saw some other variant of *nix that had some code you wanted to use, but there was a gaping security hole in it. Wouldn't you patch it before you incorporated it? and would it be your fault if this fix made the code not work with t

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:58:26PM -0400, Casey Dahlin wrote: > Suppose you saw some other variant of *nix that had some code you wanted > to use, but there was a gaping security hole in it. Wouldn't you patch > it before you incorporated it? and would it be your fault if this fix > made the cod

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

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: Indeed, it's upsetting that people like Luis Rodriguez push for the lawyers to be involved to (fight?) an open source project. Why, may I ask? Is it not self-evident? Legal review is the sane course of action, when legal issues are the bone of contention. That

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Casey Dahlin
Suppose you saw some other variant of *nix that had some code you wanted to use, but there was a gaping security hole in it. Wouldn't you patch it before you incorporated it? and would it be your fault if this fix made the code not work with the original? We took the code and fixed a gaping se

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 08:36:24PM -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > On Sep 1, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: > >> OK, I begin to understand this, there seem to be three different types >> of files changed by Jiri's patch: >> 1. dual licenced files planned to make GPL-only >> 2. previously dual lic

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Al Viro
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:42:54PM -0400, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote: > We asked SFLC to work with us to make sure that everyone's copyrights > were respected in the right places, and that the licenses various developers > wanted for their copyrights were implemented correctly. The patch I sent > i

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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of > them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that > is OK. > > When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door > against changes moving

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Jason Dixon wrote: Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your license, but the original copyright and license permission

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
On 9/1/07, Constantine A. Murenin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jason Dixon wrote: > > > Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must > > > remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your > > > license,

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jason Dixon wrote: > > Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must > > remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your > > license, but the original copyright and license permission remains > > intact.

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Jason Dixon wrote: Once the grantor (Reyk) releases his code under that license, it must remain. You are free to derive work and redistribute under your license, but the original copyright and license permission remains intact. Many other entities (Microsoft, Apple, Sun, etc) have used BSD c

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:02:26PM -0600, Bob Beck wrote: > >As a free software user and developer, the question I have is how come > >the Linux community feels that they can take the BSD code that was > >reverse-engineered at OpenBSD, and put a more restrictive licence onto > >it, such that there

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 06:36:36PM -0600, Theo de Raadt wrote: > When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of > them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that > is OK. > > When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door > against chan

Re: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Jason Dixon
On Sep 1, 2007, at 5:52 PM, Adrian Bunk wrote: OK, I begin to understand this, there seem to be three different types of files changed by Jiri's patch: 1. dual licenced files planned to make GPL-only 2. previously dual licenced files with a too recent version used planned to make GPL-only

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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:29:39PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:27:03PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAI

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

2007-09-01 Thread Theo de Raadt
When companies have taken our wireless device drivers, many many of them have given changes and fixes back. Some maybe didn't, but that is OK. When Linux took our changes back, they immediately locked the door against changes moving back, by putting a GPL license on guard. Why does our brother L

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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Luis R. Rodriguez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I urge developers to not bait into this and just leave this alone. > Those involved know what they are doing and have a strong team of > attorneys watching their backs. Any *necessary* discussions are be > done privately. Err... I don't

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 07:29:39PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:27:03PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:1

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

2007-09-01 Thread Bob Beck
>As a free software user and developer, the question I have is how come >the Linux community feels that they can take the BSD code that was >reverse-engineered at OpenBSD, and put a more restrictive licence onto >it, such that there will be no possibility of the changes going back >to OpenBSD, give

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

2007-09-01 Thread Luis R. Rodriguez
I urge developers to not bait into this and just leave this alone. Those involved know what they are doing and have a strong team of attorneys watching their backs. Any *necessary* discussions are be done privately. Luis - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" i

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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:27:03PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAI

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 03:03:36PM -0700, Sam Leffler wrote: > Adrian Bunk wrote: >> On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >> >>> On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > This will hopefull

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:51:49PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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 Garz

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

2007-09-01 Thread Sam Leffler
Adrian Bunk wrote: On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Constantine A. Murenin wrote: This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. What myth? The myth t

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 05:27:03PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: >

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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > > Th

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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Adrian Bunk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code > > > > l

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
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 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code

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

2007-09-01 Thread Jacob Meuser
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 09:30:52PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > If OpenBSD wants a world where code must be returned OpenBSD does not want this. OpenBSD wants a world where people do things because they are the right thing to do. OpenBSD lets you decide; it doesn't dictate. someone poo-poos your d

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

2007-09-01 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > > This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. > > > > What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual lic

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

2007-09-01 Thread Alan Cox
> It is illegal to modify a license unless you are the owner/author, > because it is a legal document. If there are multiple owners/authors, Oh dear - Theo, go talk to a lawyer, or do a course on licencing. The owner generally starts with the rights to control who performs acts covered by copyri

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

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

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

2007-09-01 Thread Jeff Garzik
Constantine A. Murenin wrote: This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. What myth? The myth that Theo understands dual licensing? Jeff - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECT

Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing

2007-09-01 Thread Constantine A. Murenin
This will hopefully help diminish certain myths about the code licensing. C. -- Forwarded message -- From: Theo de Raadt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 31-Aug-2007 21:40 Subject: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [bcc'd to Eben