On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 10:54 PM, Simon Kenyon <simon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 21:25 +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote: >> On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 9:08 PM, Simon Kenyon <simon@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 02:46 +0400, Manu Abraham wrote: >> >> The initial set of DVB-S2 multistandard devices supported by the >> >> multiproto tree is follows. This is just the stb0899 based dvb-s2 driver >> >> alone. There are more additions by 2 more modules (not devices), but for >> >> the simple comparison here is the quick list of them, for which some of >> >> the manufacturers have shown support in some way. (There has been quite >> >> some contributions from the community as well.): >> >> >> >> (Also to be noted is that, some BSD chaps also have shown interest in >> >> the same) >> > >> > is there any issue with GPL code being merged into BSD? >> > just asking >> >> Not with the code which comes from our side. They're at DVB-T right >> now which already works. >> That code is fully duallicensed. >> The Bridge code itself needs to get slightly refactored for analog TV. >> They are getting full technical and HW support. > > not quite sure (in the context of your sentence) who "our side" is. > all the code on mcentral.de seems to be GPL 2 or greater with copyright > claimed by you and others. i've seen nothing on this mailing list about > dual licencing any linuxtv.org code. > > i am in no way a gpl bigot. but legal niceties have to be dealt with. It's on the website, especially the new drivers which came from Empia are dual licensed and intended to be reused with other systems. GPL is just the one which is used with Linux. Those parts which are in question in case of license violations will be replaced and pointed out to people who port the code. No big deal. Markus _______________________________________________ linux-dvb mailing list linux-dvb@xxxxxxxxxxx http://www.linuxtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/linux-dvb
