On Wed, Jun 23, 2021 at 07:28:11AM +0200, Krzysztof Hałasa wrote: > Laurent Pinchart writes: > > > How does a lack of an SoB line prevent someone from doing exactly what > > you've described above ? > > The work is not published under GPL. I only review kernel code covered by the GPL, sorry :-) (And stating that a kernel driver isn't covered by the GPL is at the very least a very grey area, as it's widely understoof that drivers developed specifically for Linux are derivative work of the kernel) > > Maintainers usually understand these issues. They may fail to notice, > > but if you point out a patch that would steal your work, that would > > prevent it from being merged. > > I'd like to believe this as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like > that. See the "tw686x" (an SD TV frame grabber) case. > I didn't even request that the other driver wasn't merged. I only wanted > it as a patch on top of the original one - so the history could be > visible. Mauro, any comment on that ? -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart
