Object code for http://www.linuxtv.org/downloads/firmware/Boot.S (GPLv2+) is distributed as part of drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/av7110_hw.c in Linux, in the definition for 'static u8 bootcode[]'. I couldn't find the corresponding source code anywhere in the Linux source tarball or the v4l-dvb repository. I couldn't find any reference to the location of the source code anywhere in the av7110* sources. I didn't get a written offer for the corresponding sources when I downloaded the Linux tarball. That sounds like a GPL violation to me. IANAL, but I believe it would be advisable for the copyright holders of that file to add a copy of Boot.S to the Linux sources, and to reinstate the license for those who have knowingly or unknowingly distributed its object code in a way that AFAIK isn't permitted by the GPL, and that AFAIK causes the license to be terminated. BTW, the URL for the project's page is broken in av7110.c and av7110_hw.c: the trailing dvb/ after www.linuxtv.org/ is a 404. I'm also a bit concerned about dvb-ttpci-01.fw, requested by av7110.c. I couldn't locate source code or licensing terms for it, but I found some references to patched versions thereof on the Internet, which presumably involves getting sources and a license to modify them. Any idea of where I can find them? Thanks in advance, -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ You must be the change you wish to see in the world. -- Gandhi Be Free! -- http://FSFLA.org/ FSF Latin America board member Free Software Evangelist Red Hat Brazil Compiler Engineer -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-media" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
