On 7/10/07, Markus Rechberger <mrechberger@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code; em28xx is > derived from GPL code but worthless without the other files. Also > people can write whatever they want as long as they don't compile it > and fact is that the code is still available. > Don't compile it against v4l-dvb and it's fine.. > I can have whatever sourcecode I want to have on that server. I suspect there are all sorts of interesting legal issues here. In particular, the GPL is intended to cover entire works - relicensing individual source files in a GPLed piece of software in a non-GPL-compatible way when those files are intended to be combined with other source files which are still GPLed is a grey area at best. Since I'm not a lawyer, and I can't afford to hire one, this makes me want to not touch this code with a bargepole. I suppose I could always fork the GPL-licensed version, but getting it to compile with new kernel releases would be a real pain. (Incidentally, I assume that, since you say that "em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code", you rewrote em2880-dvb from scratch at some point. It certainly looks that way, but I know that I did have some code in em2880-dvb at one point.) > I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few > linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable > of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get > forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the > endresult. > Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the > merging requests are responsible for that. Basically, I'm left without a working, maintained, legally sound Linux driver for the hardware I'm using, through no fault of my own (except perhaps relying on an out-of-tree driver by someone who turns out to be unable to co-operate with the v4l and dvb developers). PS. Sorry for the semi-duplicate email; accidentally forgot to send to list. _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
