only my new sources are MPL licensed there; the v4l-dvb maincode is of course GPL. Even though it doesn't matter anymore the people who lead me to that step know how the code will get merged into the kernel now. It's out of the scope of linuxtv.org due useless delaying all that work. -Markus On 7/7/07, Aidan Thornton <makosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, > > I notice that Marcus Rechberger's externally-distributed V4L and DVB > drivers appear to have been relicensed under the MPL. There is a > notice on the list of repositories at http://mcentral.de/hg/ stating > that "all these projects are licensed under MPL" (note that the > repositories are copies of the official V4L repository with additional > code added, and as such most of the code is not mrec's to relicense). > In addition, the wiki page for the em2880 driver, > http://mcentral.de/wiki/index.php/Em2880#License, states: > > "the whole code is published under MPL, even if the sourcecode might > state out GPL (which might be old leftovers). This license is > incompatible with the GPL; a license change might occure at a later > time. > > Affected modules are: em2880-dvb, em28xx-audio, xc3028-tuner (simply > every additionally written sourcecode which is not packaged with the > project on linuxtv.org)" > > Indeed, the license headers and MODULE_LICENSE for these files still > state that they are GPL. (In fact, there have been no changes to the > repository at all since the licensing note was added to the wiki page > on the 12th of June) Also, em2880-dvb does not function with > MODULE_LICENSE("MPL"), though this may be fixable: > > FATAL: modpost: GPL-incompatible module em2880-dvb.ko uses GPL-only > symbol '__symbol_get > > Note that whilst the main em28xx module is not on the list of > MPL-licensed modules (most likely because it was written by several > people), it is dependant on the now MPL-licensed xc3028-tuner module. > (Also, at one point I had code in the em2880-dvb module myself, though > it appears to have been heavily rewritten since and I'm not sure if > it's still there.) > > This all seems more than a little odd (and possibly in violation of > the GPL). Any thoughts? > > Thanks, > Aidan Thornton > > _______________________________________________ > linux-dvb mailing list > linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx > http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb > -- Markus Rechberger _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
