Re: [PATCH] Hauppauge HVR-1975 support

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Bernhard, thank you for sharing.

Mauro,

I've reviewed this patch, it has a host of problems.

Ignoring the fact it contains patches to all sorts of different cards
(saa7164, CX231xx, PVR-USB2)... the patch also contains materials that
I suspect Silicon Labs would consider proprietary and confidential,
its definitely derived works from proprietary SILABS drivers.

Proceed with caution.

- Steve

-- 
Steven Toth - Kernel Labs
http://www.kernellabs.com

On Mon, Jul 3, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Bernhard Rosenkränzer
<bernhard.rosenkranzer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> Hauppauge HVR-1975 is a USB DVB receiver box,
> http://www.hauppauge.co.uk/site/products/data_hvr1900.html
>
> It is currently not supported by v4l; Hauppauge provides a patch for
> kernel 3.19 at http://www.hauppauge.com/site/support/linux.html
>
> As expected, the patch doesn't work with more recent kernels, so I've
> ported it (verified to work on 4.11.8). Due to the size of the patch,
> I've uploaded my patch to
> http://lindev.ch/hauppauge-hvr-1975.patch
>
> While it works well, there's a potential license problem in one of the files:
> From drivers/media/dvb-frontend/silg.c:
>
> /* MODULE_LICENSE("Proprietary"); */
> /* GPL discussion for silg not finished. Set to GPL for internal usage only. */
> /* The module uses GPL functions and is rejected by the kernel build if the */
> /* license is set to 'Proprietary'. */
> MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
>
> I'm not a lawyer, but my understanding is that by Hauppauge actually
> releasing that file to the public (and it being so clearly a derivate
> of GPL code that they even have to acknowledge it), their claim that
> it is anything but GPL is null and void - but we may have to make
> sure.
>
> ttyl
> bero




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