On Wed, Jan 8, 2014 at 1:42 AM, CrazyCat <crazycat69@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > Konstantin Dimitrov пишет: > >> so, i was waiting Manu to upstream his SAA716x driver code some day >> and then submit the improvements i made to it. yet again you're trying >> to take that from me and again, conveniently you included many people >> on CC, but not me. > > > it's ok :) and stop compile binary blobs for TBS :) like 'stupid' binaries > for LNB power control and init for 6925/5925 :) > do you really believe that's mine decision to direct that to me?! what you're asking is not my decision to make. > > >> in my opinion what you're doing is not right, because that patch is >> not clean-room reverse-engineering, you just took those changes from >> another open-source base and if nothing else it's at least common >> courtesy in open-source community when you didn't make them to not >> submit them as "your" patches. > > > this is open-source world :) no, it's not open-source world to take code that someone else made and say it's yours > > >> i also think with your actions you're actually hurting the community, >> because people like me, that do actually have the technical >> understanding and can help and contribute further improvements are >> driven away from the community, because >> effectively the community accepting behavior like yours is encouraging >> code stealing!! > > > what stealed code ??? :) if you want write closed-source drivers for windose > - make it ! :) > i'm not discussing any closed source work here - i'm talking about patches made to code that is licensed under GPL. -- 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
