Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 01 Sep 2007 15:03:36 -0700 | | From | Sam Leffler <> | | Subject | Re: Fwd: That whole "Linux stealing our code" thing |
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Adrian Bunk wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2007 at 01:37:18PM -0400, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > >> On 01/09/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> 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 the original dispute. >> > > It's no longer dual licenced in the FreeBSD tree because the FreeBSD > people removed the GPL choice of the dual licenced code 3 months ago. > > So all of Theo's accusations of people breaking the law by making this > dual licenced code GPL-only apply as well to the FreeBSD people... >
Sigh, why actually check the facts when you can make them up. The code in question is my code. It has my copyright (modulo bits shared with onoe-san who was consulted on the switch from dual-bsd/gpl to bsd only in freebsd). Of course what was amusing was how after I changed the license on the current code in freebsd certain folks retroactively applied the license changes to code that was 3 years old.
But is there a point to all this nonsense? I dual-licensed the code so folks could adopt and use it however they saw fit. As I've said before I don't care what people do with the work I give away so long as they don't claim it's their own.
> >> That said, I don't see what exact wording you consider inaccurate. >> > > Both the FreeBSD and Linux people draw the logical conclusion that this > "Alternatively" means everyone can always choose to remove one of the > two choices alternatively offered. > > According to Theo, that is "breaking the law"... > >
I've yet to see "FreeBSD people" speak up so again you're just spouting jibberish. I am speaking up as the author of the code that set the dual license in place. I have the definitive say and I have said that any of my code that is dual-licensed can be made gpl only.
Sam
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