I would appreciate if you could stop spamming the em28xx ML since I prefer to use it for relevant issues; Currently there are around 200 people registered most of them aren't interested in internal linuxtv issues. Try to resolve all existing relevant problems first (since there are a few other problems out there within the linuxtv "core developer(s)" community) -Markus On 7/11/07, Johannes Stezenbach <js@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 11, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: > > On 7/10/07, Trent Piepho <xyzzy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote: > > > > Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update > > > > it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it > > > > won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it. > > > > I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's > > > > > > It's funny you should say this, since 99% of the code you are > distributing > > > came from linuxtv in the first place! > > > > Trent, I believe you're smart enough to see the problem behind > > everything .. the license stuff is the smallest part of everything; > > I don't steal and obfuscate code and remove the copyrights. > > And I for sure will not tell anyone how he has to do his work after a > > discussion where I didn't seriously participate. > > The code as it is will get removed sooner or later and replaced with a > > smaller package which only contains the necessary drivers. > > > > I wonder what you try to gain by bothering about the license there all > > you can win is the removal of the code there and the release of the > > replacement of the around 80% finished reworked code. So please stay > > serious and better try to fix the community problems that something > > like that won't happen again. > > I wonder what you mean by "I don't want my work to be stolen by > linuxtv people"? > > You had your code up for download on linuxtv.org and then on mcentral.de > for months, and you asked lots of people to download and test it, which > IMHO clearly is "distribution under the GPL". > > So everyone who downloaded it has every right granted by the GPL > to modify and redistribute your code under the GPL, which implies > it could be merged it into the main linuxtv.org tree and eventually > the kernel. Of course it doesn't make sense to merge unsupported code > (which even has known issues wich need to be resolved first), however if > someone would adopt it I see no (legal) reason for not merging it. > > Maybe you don't like this to happen, but IMHO all the > people who downloaded and tested your code, and contributed > back in form of bug reports, hardware information, patches etc. > wouldn't have done so if they had known that your code would > not be merged into the mainline kernel. Some people might even > have bought hardware after they read though your Wiki pages, > under the impression that it was well supported by Linux. > > Of course you are free to do whatever you like with the > code written by you, but everyone else is free to do > what the GPL permits them with the code distributed by > you under the GPL. > > > Johannes > -- Markus Rechberger _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
