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[News] "Strong Customer Demand" Brings Yet Another Driver to Linux

  • Subject: [News] "Strong Customer Demand" Brings Yet Another Driver to Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:06:45 +0100
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
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.   
| 
| However, it does restrict any future derivative work to being released under 
| the GPL. 
| 
| 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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