GPL Code Found In OpenBSD Wireless Driver

Posted by kdawson on Saturday April 7, 2007 @05:40AM from the cross-licensing dept.

NormalVisual writes "The mailing lists were buzzing recently when Michael Buesch, one of the maintainers for the GPL'd bc43xx Broadcom wireless chip driver project, called the OpenBSD folks to task for apparently including code without permission from his project in the OpenBSD bcw project, which aims to provide functionality with Broadcom wireless chips under that OS. It seems that the problem has been resolved for now with the BSD driver author totally giving up on the project and Theo De Raadt taking the position that Buesch's posts on the subject were 'inhuman.'" More commentary from the BSD community is over at undeadly.org.

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Hardly surprising by petrus4 · 2007-04-07 11:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Here we have yet another example of the truly wonderful kind of attitude spawned and promoted by the scourge that some of us know and loathe as the FSF; ergo, fear-based mean-spiritedness, megalomania, and paranoia.

As the FSF and its' associated drones become ever more corrupt and tyrannical in their behaviour, look for them to begin finding excuses to question the BSDs' right to exist. The BSDs give people who might otherwise have no choice but to put up with the FSF another option, and sooner or later they are going to decide that they doesn't like that enough that they will try and do something concrete about it. Control cannot be maintained if people have anywhere else to go.