On 7/10/07, Marcel Siegert <mws@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: > > On 7/10/07, Jakob Petsovits <jpetso@xxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Saturday, 7. July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: > > > > 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. > > > > > > Er, excuse my baffledness, but how do you plan to get code merged into the > > > kernel if it isn't GPL? > > > > > > > there's nothing to worry about, the modified target code is GPL again. > > > > > Also, mind that the GPL being viral means that any code which bases on GPL > > > sources must be GPL (or GPL compatible) as well. Afaik, the MPL is not GPL > > > compatible, so if you put your new code exclusively under the MPL and at the > > > same time use the GPL-licensed v4l-dvb maincode as a base, you are violating > > > the GPL. > > > > > > I am not a lawyer, of course. Please consult someone with good insight, for > > > example, the Software Freedom Law Center at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/ > > > > > > Regards, > > > Jakob > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Em28xx mailing list > > > Em28xx@xxxxxxxxxxx > > > http://mcentral.de/mailman/listinfo/em28xx > > > > > > > > at least for my understanding, markus, please explain to me that, > if you use v4l/dvb core functions that are licensed GPL, your code IS > also GPL automatically, isn't it? > > and, as you told before, why is there a need to intermediate license to MPL? > Marcel, sorry this code is out of the scope of linuxtv, it's simply none of your business; A solution has been discussed with Linus and Mauro already. I do not want that my code gets reused by the linuxtv project without my authority (eg preventing code stealing). I'd appreciate if that thread can discontinue at that part, the very few active linuxtv developers who participated at the merging threads forced me to go another way since I'm not interested in further delays, you guys already delayed it for more than 1 year.. so feel lucky. So in case of the few linuxtv devs I would say the code is not intended to get compiled; In case of endusers I'd say take the code use and test it and submit bugreports if there are any, I'm try to answer all the mails on the em28xx ML (only very few might be delayed for a certain amount of time) thanks, Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
