Antonio Olivares wrote:
If the information cannot be moved, how come the wireless drivers
built with BSD license in OpenBSD by Theo de Raadt were moved to GPL
license.
Theo didn't write the drivers. Reyk Floeter and Sam Leffler did.
The drivers weren't "moved" to the GPL, either. There was a mistake
early on, where the BSD license was removed from the atheros driver
files. It should be noted that this did not actually *legally* change
the distribution terms for those files, and in fact was a violation of
their copyright. That was corrected shortly thereafter.
Theo continued to complain about the lack of cooperation between the
Linux driver authors and the original OpenBSD developers. The problem
that he perceived was that the Linux driver developers created a derived
work, and the code that *they* contributed to the driver was licensed
only under the GPL. This made it unacceptable for the OpenBSD
developers to use the modifications from the Linux developers.
There was never any "moving" involved. The original code was BSD
licensed, and remained BSD licensed when it was included in the Linux
kernel.
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