Why do they feel obliged to remove the BSD license from the Linux port of the driver? If they just keep it dual-licensed, there isn't a problem.
Or did someone issue an edict that Linux kernel code can't be dual-licensed, at some point when I wasn't paying attention?
It seems to me that some Linux developers want to deny derivative works to the original authors. I guess they think that their not a part of a community, but a members-only club, and damn anyone not using the home team kernel.
Pretty much. I wonder how much of a problem the GPL will become for Linux developers in the next few years. FreeBSD is getting things like DTrace and ZFS from Solaris as is Darwin, because the CDDL and APSL are non-viral and so can be used without affecting the license of the rest of the project. Linux can take code from the BSDs and not give back, but it can't do the same with things like XNU and OpenSolaris, both of which can share code with each other and *BSD.
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