Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 21:52:55 +0200 From: Alex <freebsd-reply@akruijff.dds.nl> To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Subject: Stolen BSD code found in Linux kernel Message-ID: <4417215744.20020916215255@dds.nl>
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Hello/Beste , I was browsing trough a news directory and found this article. Does anybody has the story how it ended? Does anyone know if it happened again? http://slashdot.org/bsd/01/09/24/1432223.shtml > Søren Schmidt was browsing through the 2.4.10 linux kernel source > when he saw something that looked a bit familiar. Too familiar in > fact. Søren is the principle developer of FreeBSD's ATA drivers, > including FreeBSD's support for ATA RAID cards, and as he looked > through the linux/drivers/ide/ files the sense of deja vu was > overwhelming. Read on for more. > > "They just took my code and filed off the copyright" said Søren. > "This is clearest with the two header files hptraid.h and pdcraid.h. > Compare these with FreeBSD's ata-raid.h, and just look at the > similarities." And it's true that these two header files certainly > look like a chopped up copy of the FreeBSD header, after a quick > search-and-replace. "The reading of the RAID config from the disks > is their own code, but is clearly "inspired" from our code," said > Søren, "but that's encouraged by the license. It's the verbatim use > of the other code without retaining the copyright that's the > problem." A bit more than a -- Best regards/Met vriendelijke groet, Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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