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Comment FLOSS communities can't be tied to one place (Score 1) 306

by bkuhn on Friday April 24, 2009 @04:23PM (#27706193) Attached to: Sun Announces New MySQL, Michael Widenius Forks

I think the fundamental problem is that FLOSS community needs diversity and cannot be tied to a single for-profit entity. For a project to succeed with a healthy community, it needs individual developers or a non-profit entity (run by developers) to control it. I've written a blog post about this specific issue in response to Monty's linked in the main article.

Submission + - Final word on Linux improvements to OpenBSD's ar5k

Submitted by An anonymous reader on Friday September 28, 2007 @10:51AM

An anonymous reader writes: Given heavy prior coverage, Slashdotters may enjoy reading the SFLC's three papers: one that analyzes the history of Linux's ath5k code (derived from OpenBSD's ar5k), one that gives advice for GPL/ISC license collaboration, and one that talks about the legal issue of copyrightable originality. These papers should put to rest the acrimony and arguing about the OpenBSD-ar5k-derived ath5k driver in Linux. A patch has also been submitted that makes sure all the copyright holders are credited. The story has been covered on Linux Watch, ZD Net, Groklaw, LWN, and the OpenBSD Journal.

Submission + - SFLC's final word on Linux's ar5k-derived ath5k

Submitted by An anonymous reader on Friday September 28, 2007 @10:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: Given heavy prior coverage of the issue, Slashdot readers would surely be interested to know that the Software Freedom Law Center (SFLC) has released three papers: Code Analysis of the Linux Wireless Team's ath5k Driver , Maintaining Permissive-Licensed Files in a GPL-Licensed Project , and Originality Requirements under U.S. and E.U. Copyright Law that put to rest the acrimony and arguing about the OpenBSD-ar5k-derived ath5k driver in Linux. A patch has also been sent to linux-wireless that makes sure all the copyright holders are credited. The story has been covered on ZD Net, Linux Watch, Groklaw, LWN, the OpenBSD Journal and on madwifi.org.

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