Re: Wasting our Freedom

On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 09:19:14PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote:
...
Now, in the case of the Atheros wireless code, the original author
(Sam Leffler) has stated that as far as *his* code was concerned, he
was willing to dual license it. However, in this case, he agreed to
have the code dual-licensed three years after the project was started.
He was amused and had no objections to people retroactively applying
the licensing changes to code that was 3 years old.[1]
...

It's actually the other way round:

Sam changed the licence from dual 3-clause BSD and GPL to 2-clause BSD.

- Ted

cu
Adrian

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