On Mon, Jun 20, 2011 at 2:17 PM, HoP <jpetrous@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Can you tell me when such disscussion was done? I did a big attempt > to check if my work is not reinventing wheels, but I found only some > very generic frontend template by Emard <emard@xxxxxxxxxxxx>. See the "userspace tuner" thread here for the background: http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-August/thread.html#19840 >> easier for evil tuner manufacturers to leverage all the hard work done >> by the LinuxTV developers while providing a closed-source solution. > > May be I missunderstood something, but I can't see how frontend > virtualization/sharing can help to leverage others work. It helps in that it allows third parties to write drivers in userspace that leverage the in-kernel implementation of DVB core. It means that a product developer who didn't want to abide by the GPL could write a closed-source driver in userland which takes advantage of the thousands of lines of code that make up the DVB core. >> It was an explicit goal to *not* allow third parties to reuse the >> Linux DVB core unless they were providing in-kernel drivers which >> conform to the GPL. > > I'm again not sure if you try to argument against vtunerc code > or nope. I am against things like this being in the upstream kernel which make it easier for third parties to leverage GPL code without making their code available under the GPL. Devin -- Devin J. Heitmueller - Kernel Labs http://www.kernellabs.com -- 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
