On 3 July 2017 at 14:56, Steven Toth <stoth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Bernhard, thank you for sharing. > > Mauro, > > I've reviewed this patch, it has a host of problems. Yes - it's a 1:1 forward port of the patch Hauppauge released for 3.19 (apparently with the goal to support as many of their devices as possible). > the patch also contains materials that I > suspect Silicon Labs would consider proprietary and confidential, its > definitely derived works from proprietary SILABS drivers. Does anyone know for sure what the legal situation is when a HW manufacturer releases a patch (as Hauppauge did) that is clearly derived from GPL code yet at the same time derived from non-free code? My interpretation is that by putting it out, they've released a GPL derived work, which they can legally do only if they agree to comply with the GPL, therefore any other license notice would be void. But as I pointed out before I'm not a lawyer... ttyl bero
