On 08/19/2013 10:47 PM, Hans Petter Selasky wrote:
On 08/18/13 21:02, Steven Toth wrote:
FYI: The Si2168 driver is available from "dvbsky-linux-3.9-hps-v2.diff"
inside. Maybe the Si2165 is similar?
Excellent.
Hi Guys,
I was contacted by someone claiming to be from "RSD" ??, named Danny
Griegs, off-list, claiming I have the source code for sit2.c and cannot
distribute it.
I want to make clear to everyone that the tarball I've provided only
contains the C-equivalent of the "objdump -dx" output from the
media_build-bst/v4l/sit2.o.x86 which is distributed officially by DVBSKY.
He claimed I had to pull the tarball off my site right away or face
legal actions. I cannot understand this, and would like to ask you guys
what you think. Obviously my sit2.c is too similar to their "licensed"
sit2.c. And now these guys want to send a lawyer after me. What a mess.
Should I laugh or cry. Any advice from you guys about this?
Mabbe better to take off and develop clean room reverse-engineered one
from the sniffs. It should not be mission impossible, but took a much
more time. Also, it could be possible to get datasheets from the chipset
vendor in order to develop totally new driver.
BTW: The hexdump of the sit2.o.x86 contains the string "license=GPL".
Does that give me any rights to redistribute the re-assembled C-code ?
I think that is grey area. There is a lot of binary modules having GPL
license symbol whilst code is never shared...
00002460 63 28 29 20 66 61 69 6c 65 64 0a 00 01 36 73 69 |c()
failed...6si|
00002470 74 32 3a 20 25 73 2c 20 70 6f 77 65 72 20 75 70 |t2: %s,
power up|
00002480 0a 00 01 36 73 69 74 32 3a 20 25 73 2c 20 70 6f
|...6sit2: %s, po|
00002490 77 65 72 20 75 70 5b 25 64 5d 0a 00 76 65 72 73 |wer
up[%d]..vers|
000024a0 69 6f 6e 3d 31 2e 30 30 00 6c 69 63 65 6e 73 65
|ion=1.00.license|
000024b0 3d 47 50 4c 00 61 75 74 68 6f 72 3d 4d 61 78 20
|=GPL.author=Max |
000024c0 4e 69 62 62 6c 65 20 3c 6e 69 62 62 6c 65 2e 6d |Nibble
<nibble.m|
000024d0 61 78 40 67 6d 61 69 6c 2e 63 6f 6d 3e 00 64 65
|ax@xxxxxxxxx>.de|
000024e0 73 63 72 69 70 74 69 6f 6e 3d 73 69 74 32 20 64
|scription=sit2 d|
000024f0 65 6d 6f 64 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 20 64 72 69 76 65
|emodulator drive|
00002500 72 00 70 61 72 6d 3d 73 69 74 32 5f 64 65 62 75
|r.parm=sit2_debu|
00002510 67 3a 41 63 74 69 76 61 74 65 73 20 66 72 6f 6e
|g:Activates fron|
00002520 74 65 6e 64 20 64 65 62 75 67 67 69 6e 67 20 28 |tend
debugging (|
00002530 64 65 66 61 75 6c 74 3a 30 29 00 70 61 72 6d 74
|default:0).parmt|
00002540 79 70 65 3d 73 69 74 32 5f 64 65 62 75 67 3a 69
|ype=sit2_debug:i|
Thank you.
--HPS
regards
Antti
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