On 7/10/07, Aidan Thornton <makosoft@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: I noticed one thing, You sure seem to have plenty of time to argue about utterly irrelevant shit. But you couldn't spare 5 minutes of your life to agree on accepting this code a year ago. I think this is purely your loss at this point, just eat it up, shut up, stop playing lawyers, and get back to coding (or whatever you do). -tc > 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 > _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
