> At 21:28 7.1.2007, you wrote:
> >Okay.
> >
> >Lets turn the discussion this way:
> >* We can all agree that Hiroshi *owns* his drivers.
>
> I will dispute this predicament. As I post earlier I don't believe
> Hiroshi has created the driver from the scratch. I do believe he has
> used some opensource (freebsd probably) driver he has based his work
> on. I'm no opensource expert but I think you can't simply take an
> opensource stuff and turn it in to a close/commercial product without
> making the final product to comply with the opensource license...
Not under the BSD/MIT license. He's legally allowed to do this as long
as he doesn't claim that he's written it, and doesn't sue anyone if it
blows up. I think. You can find the BSD license easily online.
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