Pico Technology Releases Linux Driver for USB TC-08 Thermocouple Data Logger
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| Due to strong customer demand, Pico Technology has released a beta version of
| a Linux driver...
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http://www.newswiretoday.com/news/23193/
Nice take on the GPL debate here...
GPL vs BSD: why are people fighting?
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| Curiously, the BSD people, who have no objection to their code being locked
| up for good in proprietary applications, raise hell when someone uses the GPL
| instead. Why? The only thing that the GPL ensures is that any code released
| under it will be free thereafter.
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| However, it does restrict any future derivative work to being released under
| the GPL.
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| The GPL is a pragmatic licence - I use this adjective to describe it because
| the man who devised it obviously understood one major failing of the human
| race. Richard Stallman factored in the human desire to take and not give when
| he drafted the original GPL.
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/14361/1091/
Related:
Open Source coders caught stealing Open Source code
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=38746
Linux Driver Copyright Violation
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| After years of encouragement from the OpenBSD community for others to
| use Reyk Floeter's free atheros wireless driver, it seems that the
| Linux world is finally listening. Unfortunately, they seem to think
| that they can strip the BSD license right out of it.
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20070829001634
Linux: Continuing Dual-Licensing Discussions
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| Discussion continues on the Linux Kernel mailing list about the legality and
| morality of re-licensing BSD/GPL dual-licensed code under only the GPL.
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http://kerneltrap.org/Linux/Continuing_Dual-Licensing_Discussions
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