Resolution of BSD-GPL Wireless Code Dispute?

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday October 2, 2007 @08:08AM from the can't-we-all-just-get-along dept.

An anonymous reader writes "The highly publicized debate between Theo de Raadt and the Software Freedom Law Center seems to have come to an amicable end. SFLC has published its research on the lineage of the ath5k driver and determined who owns which changes. In the end, everyone agreed to license their modifications to the Linux driver under the BSD license, and OpenBSD developers can now reincorporate those improvements into the original code (with the exception of one historically GPL-licensed branch)." The article notes that Theo de Raadt has not responded publicly to this development but that comments on the issue in an OpenBSD Journal forum have been generally positive.

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Re:Theo is not a lawyer by Anonymous Coward · 2007-10-02 08:28 · Score: 0, Troll

The same could be said of a lawyer who only knows US Laws when dealing with things that are outside of said country.
Re:BSD license confussion. by Estanislao+Mart�nez · 2007-10-02 10:54 · Score: 0, Troll

First, I am glad that this came to a reasonable resolution that benefits all parties.

Has it? All I see is SFLC pronouncements.

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