Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-12 Thread Open Phugu
On 4/11/07, Mike Erdely <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:20:51PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:08:44 +0200 Marc Balmer wrote: > > > [X] -- communism isn't as bad as the GPL ;) > > [X] marco is a communist > no; if so, he's as good as communist as George

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Todd Alan Smith
On 4/11/07, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:34 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > GPL advocates claim their license prevents commercial entities from > stealing their freedom. These are the same people who have no > problem giving up their freedoms (in the form of NDA

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 22:34 -0400, Jason Dixon wrote: > GPL advocates claim their license prevents commercial entities from > stealing their freedom. These are the same people who have no > problem giving up their freedoms (in the form of NDA's, closed-source > kernel modules, etc) to the comp

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Mike Erdely
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:20:51PM +0200, Timo Schoeler wrote: > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:08:44 +0200 Marc Balmer wrote: > > > [X] -- communism isn't as bad as the GPL ;) > > [X] marco is a communist > no; if so, he's as good as communist as George W. Bush as president. WTF! What the hell does GPL,

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 20:08:44 +0200 Marc Balmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Timo Schoeler wrote: > > On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:25:14 +0200 > > Massimo Lusetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:20:33 -0500 > >> Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>> GPL is as fr

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Marc Balmer
Timo Schoeler wrote: On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:25:14 +0200 Massimo Lusetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:20:33 -0500 Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GPL is as free as communism. Please add this to fortune! -- Massimo.run(); She's the kind of girl who climbed the l

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Timo Schoeler
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 16:25:14 +0200 Massimo Lusetti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:20:33 -0500 > Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > GPL is as free as communism. > > Please add this to fortune! > > -- > Massimo.run(); > She's the kind of girl who climbed the lad

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Massimo Lusetti
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 20:20:33 -0500 Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GPL is as free as communism. Please add this to fortune! -- Massimo.run(); She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong. -- Mae West

GPL is free for forcing people to free code, not free as in free to do what you want, which is actually what free as in BSD and real freedom is (Was: bcw(4) is gone)

2007-04-11 Thread Jeroen Massar
[set the topic to make it nice and clear, this has nothing to do with bcw(4) for a long time now, actually the whole thread avoided it] Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: > Seg, 2007-04-09 C s 18:29 +0100, Jeroen Massar escreveu: >> GPL is good though if you want to force people to give back the code

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-11 Thread Rui Miguel Silva Seabra
Seg, 2007-04-09 C s 18:29 +0100, Jeroen Massar escreveu: > GPL is good though if you want to force people to give back the code to > you so that you can use it in your own dual-licensed projects. This shows a fundamental lack of understanding of the way both the GPL and generic copyright work.

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-10 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 07:33:31PM +0800, Doug Brewer wrote: > Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: > >> if someone is still reading the thread... > >> > > > >lalalala > > Is it funny? Fuck off!!! lalalala > it is not funny b

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-10 Thread Doug Brewer
Reyk Floeter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: > if someone is still reading the thread... > lalalala Is it funny? Fuck off!!! lalalala

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-10 Thread Reyk Floeter
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 12:19:29PM +0200, frantisek holop wrote: > if someone is still reading the thread... > lalalala

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-10 Thread frantisek holop
if someone is still reading the thread... 1. marcus makes mistake 2. michael tells the world 3. theo plays theater 1. it's not rocket science not to commit gpl licensed code into the public cvs tree under a bsd license and let it sit there for months. esp. with the openbsd kind of draconian lice

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-10 Thread Artur Grabowski
RedShift <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Have you tried submitting patches to them? You are just being > prejudist. Please don't say things you "think", say things that are > proven fact. Is that a fact? Or just your opinion? I think it's a discussion that doesn't belong on this mailing list. //ar

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-10 Thread Leonardo Rodrigues
Phew, what a load of animosity. I really hope humanity still has a chance. Now, regarding the bcw issue, let's leave this thread to die. Mistakes are meant to be forgiven, and life to be lived forwards =) -- An OpenBSD user... and that's all you need to know =)

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread RedShift
Marco Peereboom wrote: I have to reply to this horse shit. :-) *snip* Regarding freedom: Take the Linksys routing devices. They ship with GPL software. Taking what you said as an example, it would be OK if Linksys made proprietary changes to the free software and deliver a closed sof

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Timo Schoeler
On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 23:15:36 -0400 Adam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Who the hell do you think you are that you can impose a definition > > of free on me? Freedom is also a matter of perception and > > perspective. > > No, its the FSF trying to re

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Lars Hansson
Tobias Weisserth wrote: Who the hell do you think you are that you can impose a definition of free on me? I dunno, who does RMS think he is imposing his definition of free on me? --- Lars Hansson

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Lars Hansson
darren kirby wrote: This is not so much a response to you Steven, as to the entire OpenBSD community. Wide-sweeping incorrect generalizations are awesome. Can I make one too? All GPL developers are morons. See? That was fun, wasn't it? Who cares if it's correct, two wrongs make a right, doesn'

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 08:20:33PM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > It is because you do not understand the definition of free. Let me > quote some relevant passages from dictionary.com: > * exempt from external authority, interference, restriction, etc. > * able to do something at will > * ex

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Adam
Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Who the hell do you think you are that you can impose a definition of > free on me? Freedom is also a matter of perception and perspective. No, its the FSF trying to redefine the word free. The english language has had the word for a long time, and

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Artur Grabowski
Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi there, > > On Apr 9, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > ... > > > GPL is good though if you want to force people to give back the > > code to > > you so that you can use it in your own dual-licensed projects. > > > > For people wanting true

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Artur Grabowski
"Greg Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Nothing in the GPL prohibits commercial use of code released under the > > GPL. It is perfectly fine to sell copies of GPLed code at any price. > > What is *not* perfectly fine is to sell copies of GPLed code without > > allowing access to the source c

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Thomas
On 4/9/07, Jason Dixon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:16 PM, Greg Thomas wrote: > Unfuckingbelievable. Is there something in the GPL water that messes > with its fans' brains and twists their realities??? The real hypocrisy is this: GPL advocates claim their license prevents

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Jason Dixon
On Apr 9, 2007, at 10:16 PM, Greg Thomas wrote: Unfuckingbelievable. Is there something in the GPL water that messes with its fans' brains and twists their realities??? The real hypocrisy is this: GPL advocates claim their license prevents commercial entities from stealing their freedom.

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Thomas
On 4/9/07, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It is because you do not understand the definition of free. > > Who the hell do you think you are that you can impose a definition of > free on me? Freedom is also a matter of perception and perspective. I > have given you a practical examp

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Darren Spruell
On 4/9/07, Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there, On Apr 10, 2007, at 3:20 AM, Marco Peereboom wrote: > It is because you do not understand the definition of free. Who the hell do you think you are that you can impose a definition of free on me? Freedom is also a matter of perce

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
> >It is because you do not understand the definition of free. > > Who the hell do you think you are that you can impose a definition of > free on me? Freedom is also a matter of perception and perspective. I > have given you a practical example which you simply rejected without > even consi

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi there, On Apr 10, 2007, at 3:20 AM, Marco Peereboom wrote: It is because you do not understand the definition of free. Who the hell do you think you are that you can impose a definition of free on me? Freedom is also a matter of perception and perspective. I have given you a practical

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
I have to reply to this horse shit. > Everything you said is true, fair and square. But does it really > change anything? A copyright owner can decide whatever he wants when > it comes to /his/ code. If he decides that other people may only use > it if they offer it under the same restrictio

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Marco Peereboom
On Tue, Apr 10, 2007 at 01:48:08AM +0200, Tobias Weisserth wrote: > Hi there, > > On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Robby Workman wrote: > > >It's not a matter of perspective - forced freedom is not freedom. blah blah blah

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi there, On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Adam wrote: Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The problem is the word "free". BSD people tend to interpret "free" as "I can do whatever I want with that code! Hell, I can even make it "unfree" again by turning it into a proprietary product!".

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi there, On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:43 PM, Robby Workman wrote: It's not a matter of perspective - forced freedom is not freedom. That statement also is a matter of perspective. ;-) If you mean by "freedom", the liberty to do whatever you want, then BSD is freedom. If you mean by "freedom", th

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi there, On Apr 9, 2007, at 8:40 PM, Jessie D wrote: fastmail.net> writes: 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

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Robby Workman
Tobias Weisserth wrote: >> GPL is good though if you want to force people to give back the code to >> you so that you can use it in your own dual-licensed projects. >> >> For people wanting true freedom of their code use: BSD or ISC it ;) > > The problem is the word "free". BSD people tend to int

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Adam
Tobias Weisserth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is the word "free". BSD people tend to interpret "free" > as "I can do whatever I want with that code! Hell, I can even make it > "unfree" again by turning it into a proprietary product!". Don't believe RMSs FUD. You can't turn code "

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Jessie D
fastmail.net> writes: > > > > 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. Exactly. > So no code was rele

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 18:29 +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: > > The GPL is not about limiting commerical use of software. The GPL is > > about preserving freedom (i.e. "share and share alike"). The GNU Ada > > compiler is commerical software, which also happens to be released > > under the GPL. > That

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Tobias Weisserth
Hi there, On Apr 9, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: ... GPL is good though if you want to force people to give back the code to you so that you can use it in your own dual-licensed projects. For people wanting true freedom of their code use: BSD or ISC it ;) The problem is the word

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Jessie D
Darren Spruell gmail.com> writes: > Also proving all the more that the GPL is without a doubt an extremely > short-sighted and self-serving reference to software freedom. Poison, > both in the sense of software licensing and developer mindset. What does any of this have to do with the license?!

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Greg Thomas
On 4/9/07, Shawn K. Quinn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 10:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > They stated that they don't want Broadcom to take their work and close > it. Why do they care? What possible difference does it make? > Broadcom will get a driver that actually works

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Jeroen Massar
Shawn K. Quinn wrote: [..] > Nothing in the GPL prohibits commercial use of code released under the > GPL. It is perfectly fine to sell copies of GPLed code at any price. > What is *not* perfectly fine is to sell copies of GPLed code without > allowing access to the source code. Not exactly. The c

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-09 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 10:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > They stated that they don't want Broadcom to take their work and close > it. Why do they care? What possible difference does it make? > Broadcom will get a driver that actually works well? > They're not going to make any money off their

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-07 Thread Alex de Joode
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:55:19AM -0400, Eric Furman wrote: [..] > You may be right, but then I would have made the same error as he did > if I were in the same situation. Even though it is publicly accessible > does not mean to me that it was *published* In some jurisdictions it just means tha

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Jon Simola
On 4/6/07, Stefan Sperling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yes they did: http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/ I've spent some time reading it today, for the occasion. It seems to be lacking some details, e.g. the section describing how to attach the backplane bridge of the chip [1] says to turn on the c

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Jack J. Woehr
On Apr 6, 2007, at 2:42 PM, Darren Spruell wrote: > This whole affair has once again proved that the project's dedication > to getting a hardware vendor to reduce completely open specifications > and documentation, and not compromises around such, is truly the only > "safe" way to go. That appear

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Darren Spruell
On 4/6/07, Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the really valuable lesson out of all this is that this shows, for once & for all, that a GPL licensed driver is *not* an acceptable substitute for proper documentation released by the maker without undo intellectual or financial burden (

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Marcus Watts
Gordon Willem Klok <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Part of this is nonsense and I dont mean to pick on you in particular > but I have seen it repeated a few times now and its getting annoying. > > If licenses were as viral as some of you people imagine that one cannot > look at a source file copyrig

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Gordon Willem Klok
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:50:15AM -0400, Marcus Watts wrote: > Writes darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > ... > > From: Joseph Jezak: > > >>As one of the reverse engineers, the reason for the openness of > > >>writing the specification was to ensure that the Chinese Wall method > > >>was maintaine

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Marcus Watts
bofh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 4/6/07, Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It's a shame the gnu folks didn't release their reversed engineered > > specifications separately. > > Waitaminit - I thought they did?!?! Reading that gmane list, one of > the spec writing people said he wo

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:50:15AM -0400, Marcus Watts wrote: > It's a shame the gnu folks didn't release their reversed engineered > specifications separately. They did: http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net and http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net.

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 01:30:35PM -0400, bofh wrote: > On 4/6/07, Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >It's a shame the gnu folks didn't release their reversed engineered > >specifications separately. > Waitaminit - I thought they did?!?! Yes they did: http://bcm-v4.sipsolutions.net/ I've

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread bofh
On 4/6/07, Marcus Watts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's a shame the gnu folks didn't release their reversed engineered specifications separately. Waitaminit - I thought they did?!?! Reading that gmane list, one of the spec writing people said he would be happy to answer any questions about the

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Marcus Watts
Writes darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ... > From: Joseph Jezak: > >>As one of the reverse engineers, the reason for the openness of > >>writing the specification was to ensure that the Chinese Wall method > >>was maintained. > > >>To date, I have not been contacted by any of the bcw programmers

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Dan Farrell
lf Of Douglas Allan Tutty Sent: Friday, April 06, 2007 12:15 PM To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: bcw(4) is gone On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:46:28AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > What you people seem to miss in the whole discussion here is that Linux > people contact vendors IN PRIVATE if

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:46:28AM -0500, Marco Peereboom wrote: > What you people seem to miss in the whole discussion here is that Linux > people contact vendors IN PRIVATE if they find GPL violations yet a > valuable member of the open source community does not get the same > courtesy. Only b

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Dan Farrell
I read the whole thread at gmane and I'm disgusted that a Linux developer would turn on a BSD developer like that, but I'm not surprised. Theo makes the point that Buesch and Co. are treating Marcus like a thief. They all deny it (claiming they want to help Marcus and the situation), but then they

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Jacob Yocom-Piatt
darren kirby wrote: This is not so much a response to you Steven, as to the entire OpenBSD community. quoth the Steven Harms: There are two roads, the high and the low road. I am not sure why an adult (assuming) needs to be educated on this. High road? Is that how you would describ

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Eric Furman
On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 11:15:33 -0400, "Harry Menegay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 21:29:52 +0200, "Marc Balmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > said: > >> Diana Eichert wrote: > >> To ease his work, and to let others in our group to step in in his > >> effort

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Weldon Goree
On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 10:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > They stated that they don't want Broadcom to take their work and close > it. Why do they care? What possible difference does it make? > Broadcom will get a driver that actually works well? What do you care if that's what they care about

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread bofh
On 4/6/07, Marco Peereboom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What you people seem to miss in the whole discussion here is that Linux people contact vendors IN PRIVATE if they find GPL violations yet a valuable member of the open source community does not get the same courtesy. Only bad things happen wh

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Marco Peereboom
> IMO this is a vindication of the principle that being a jerk doesn't > necessarily make you wrong: Michael should have handled this differently > (especially given the state of the driver at the time), but he does have > a responsibility to protect his license. It seems to be a big concern to > h

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread ericfurman
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 17:25:53 -0400, "Daniel Ouellet" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Where is the Open Community is going these days... > They stated that they don't want Broadcom to take their work and close it. Why do they care? What possible difference does it make? Broadcom will get a driver tha

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread ericfurman
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

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Henning Brauer
* Floor Terra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-06 01:43]: > Would it be wrong to develop software using existing GPL'ed code as a > starting point. > And bit by bit rewrite the code until you have rewritten all of it. > Then releasing the final code under an BSD license? 100% legal -- Henning Brauer

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Siegbert Marschall
Hi, > Now everyone has won, the Linux people, Broadcom and the OpenBSD users. > > Thank you, Linux BCW developers! > actually, although the above is clearly meant in the sense if irony. I take it literally and agree with it. didn't cry a single tear about the adaptec shit either. my laptop has s

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Floor Terra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6-apr-2007, at 10:32, chefren wrote: On 4/6/07 1:26 AM, Andris Delfino wrote: First, this wouldn't happen cause I prefer the BSD license, but, if someone violates the copyright of my work, I'll take that guy down. In the most publicly and s

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2007/04/06 00:27, darren kirby wrote: > Oh no? Read the thread again: I think it would have been fairer if you included Marcus' response for the benefit of people who just read your selected quotes rather than the whole thread. http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1573

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Damien Miller
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Andris Delfino wrote: > First, this wouldn't happen cause I prefer the BSD license, but, if > someone violates the copyright of my work, I'll take that guy down. In > the most publicly and shameful way. How does this militant attitude work alongside your preference for the BSD

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Weldon Goree
> Would it be wrong to develop software using existing GPL'ed code as a > starting point. > And bit by bit rewrite the code until you have rewritten all of it. > Then releasing the final code under an BSD license? *shrug* Personally I consider that a derivative work and try to avoid it, though pra

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Antoine Jacoutot
On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, darren kirby wrote: This is not so much a response to you Steven, as to the entire OpenBSD community. Ok, as I feel part of it, I will respond to this. High road? Is that how you would describe Theo's handling of this situation? Theo reacted _to_ the handling of the situ

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread chefren
On 4/6/07 1:26 AM, Andris Delfino wrote: First, this wouldn't happen cause I prefer the BSD license, but, if someone violates the copyright of my work, I'll take that guy down. In the most publicly and shameful way. A) If you really prefer BSD you wouldn't care about what people do with your

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-06 Thread Simon Effenberg
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:13:39PM -0400, Gordon Willem Klok wrote: > Software is developed by PEOPLE (plural), people dont work very well > together when one of them is acting like a five year old. > > gwk Isn't everybody in this discussion like a five year old? If you look at the thread it make

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread darren kirby
This is not so much a response to you Steven, as to the entire OpenBSD community. quoth the Steven Harms: > There are two roads, the high and the low road. I am not sure why an adult > (assuming) needs to be educated on this. High road? Is that how you would describe Theo's handling of this si

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Steven Harms
There are two roads, the high and the low road. I am not sure why an adult (assuming) needs to be educated on this. The guy took code and relicensed it. That sucks. We know. But instead of trying to work with him, and educated him (since he does do a ton of work on free software), Michael effe

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Gordon Willem Klok
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 08:26:06PM -0300, Andr?s Delfino wrote: > On 4/5/07, Rogier Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 4/6/07, Andris Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. > >No one seems to dispute the right of copyright holders to protect

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Travers Buda
* Andr?s Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-04-05 20:26:06]: > First, this wouldn't happen cause I prefer the BSD license, but, if > someone violates the copyright of my work, I'll take that guy down. In > the most publicly and shameful way. > Heh. I think the person that's feeling the biggest b

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Rogier Krieger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/6/07, Andris Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. No one seems to dispute the right of copyright holders to protect their licence. That said, there are more ways than one to protect one

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Rogier Krieger
On 4/6/07, Andris Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. No one seems to dispute the right of copyright holders to protect their licence. That said, there are more ways than one to protect one's licence. It hardly seems unreasonable to privately co

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Dries Schellekens
Andris Delfino wrote: Yes, and he was wrong. He shouldn't base his work in copylefted software (if he intend to release the result as non-copylefted). Licenses are licenses. Yes, Marcus made a mistake. But not the mistake this GPL zealots seem to think (not knowing that copying GPL code is n

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Steven Harms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This isnt a question of him being wrong, its a question of HOW IT WAS HANDLED. Get it? The simple courtesy of privately emailing someone would have taken 30 seconds and would have saved everyone a bunch of time, energy, and embarrassment. On 4

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Steven Harms
This isnt a question of him being wrong, its a question of HOW IT WAS HANDLED. Get it? The simple courtesy of privately emailing someone would have taken 30 seconds and would have saved everyone a bunch of time, energy, and embarrassment. On 4/5/07, Andris Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Floor Terra
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 6-apr-2007, at 0:51, Andris Delfino wrote: Yes, and he was wrong. He shouldn't base his work in copylefted software (if he intend to release the result as non-copylefted). Licenses are licenses. Would it be wrong to develop software using e

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Nick !
On 4/5/07, Andris Delfino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/5/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andris Delfino wrote: > > What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. > > Where the hell is the open community is going these days, I have no > clue... Look to me it sure enjoy destro

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Matthias Kilian
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 05:25:53PM -0400, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > A great day for the Open Source community I tell you. In the public, most people talking about "open source community" don't really care about open source or community at all -- they just want great software for cheap, and they aren

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andris Delfino wrote: > What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. Did you read the full tread first before you wrote this? Did you look at the code in CVS, did you even see Marcus reply and why? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.ke

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
Andris Delfino wrote: What's wrong? They protect their license. Period. Did you read the full tread first before you wrote this? Did you look at the code in CVS, did you even see Marcus reply and why? http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1573 I don't think you did!

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Woodchuck
On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > And this make it even worst: > > http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38746 Typical of that rag. The author talks as if bcw was part of a release, not some sort of development code. Apparently GPL means "Go Piss in the Lake". ... > Where

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Andrés Delfino
On 4/5/07, Daniel Ouellet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And this make it even worst: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38746 All good work and good faith to come with better end results is wrongfully drag into mud. I read all the thread and this makes me sick! It only makes me more

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Daniel Ouellet
And this make it even worst: http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38746 All good work and good faith to come with better end results is wrongfully drag into mud. I read all the thread and this makes me sick! It only makes me more sick with anything carrying GPL, Linux, and Broadc

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Steven Harms
I think it is sad, and a horrible representation of GPL coders. Michael doesn't speak for all of us, and it is clear to anyone with common sense that the first thing you do is contact in private. On 4/5/07, Bret Lambert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:16 -0600, Diana Eicher

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Bret Lambert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:16 -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: > and info why here, > http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1558/ > > With apologies to everyone for off-color language... What a bunch of douches.

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Marc Balmer
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

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Darrin Chandler
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:55:10PM -0600, Diana Eichert wrote: > In case you don't follow -current commits, > http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=117579052530442&w=2 > > bcw(4) is gone I don't believe Michael's initial intention was to have this happen, but th

Re: bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Diana Eichert
and info why here, http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.wireless.general/1558/

bcw(4) is gone

2007-04-05 Thread Diana Eichert
In case you don't follow -current commits, http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-cvs&m=117579052530442&w=2 bcw(4) is gone