This is one of the rare occasions where I think Theo is right

Posted Sep 6, 2007 9:50 UTC (Thu) by jschrod (subscriber, #1646)
In reply to: This is one of the rare occasions where I think Theo is right by sepreece
Parent article: Relicensing: what's legal and what's right

But the original author stated his intent that it is choose and pick. (And the FreeBSD folks did so, too.) And in law, intent counts a lot.

That said, I also think that Linux changes to the drivers should be licensed BSD+GPL, in respect for the original authors' work. It's not a legal thing, it's a moral obligation, IMHO.