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 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 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 le