[Nightwing] Update on the Orion Mesh Fiasco: The MicroBSD Fiasco

[Julio Cesar Puigpinos]

Continuing with the case of the violation of the GPLv3 license of the
Nightwing firmware [1], the LUGRo-Mesh Team has continued to
investigate Mr. Scott Kamp and was able to find that it is not the
first time that he make abuses of Copyright.

Searching in Google, we could find information about the MicroBSD
Fiasco occurred in 2003.

This fiasco is about the fork of OpenBSD called MicroBSD [2]. In this
case the claim came from Theo de Raadt [3], among others, because of
the failure to respect the Copyright of OpenBSD.

The MicroBSD project was led by a user with nick Outback Dingo
(dingo en microbsd.net), called Scott Kamp. Oh coincidence :)


References about this fact:

In the list openbsd-misc you can read e-mails on this fact, some
interesting are:
    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104570206117686&w=2
    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104570906624233&w=2
    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104571023325099&w=2
    * http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=104576154720463&w=2

>From the last one we rescued the final conclusion of David Riley:
“…I think the idea behind MicroBSD’s work (a fork) was perfectly valid
and acceptable… right up to the point where they took credit for other
peoples’ work.”

Which applies perfectly to what happened with the Orion Mesh fiasco.

As proof of the disrespect of the Copyright:
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/openbsd/2003-02/1598.html

In all the cases you can continue reading the rest of the e-mails that
are part of the respective threads and learn more about the subject.

Another fact that came was the closing of the MicroBSD project[4]. The
same thing happened with Orion: remove all references to the project,
remove the code, invent excuses, and say untruths so he can look like
the victim of what happened.

The behavior of OutBackDingo: not respecting the Copyright, spamming
in forum to praise his "product", giving false excuses, to always try
to be the "victim", and so was then and now. Which shows that the
procedure that this "person" has is common and chronic.

More information about the MicroBSD fiasco and Scott Kamp (A.K.A.
Outback Dingo or Dingo):
    * http://bsd.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/02/21/157222
    * http://www.osnews.com/comments/2878
    * http://www.bsdnewsletter.com/2002/09/Features39b.html
    * http://osdir.com/ml/netbsd.general/2003-02/msg00302.html
    * http://ezine.daemonnews.org/200302/microbsd.html

You can also read this email in Portuguese, where other events about
this "person" are commented:
http://www.mail-archive.com/fugspbr@fugspbr.org/msg06467.html
English translation of it:
http://translate.google.com.ar/translate?js=n&prev=_t&hl=es&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mail-archive.com%2Ffugspbr%40fugspbr.org%2Fmsg06467.html&sl=pt&tl=en&history_state0=es%7Cen%7CTraduccion%2520del%2520mismo%2520al%2520ingles%253A&swap=1


                               The LUGRo-Mesh Team


[1] http://nightwing.lugro-mesh.org.ar/doc/corriendo_dingos/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MicroBSD
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_de_Raadt
[4] http://openbsd.monkey.org/misc/200302/msg00647.html


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