Am 15.01.2014 17:42, schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab: > You can't simply extract those patches from some other tree and send, without > the driver's author ack. > https://bitbucket.org/liplianin/s2-liplianin-v37/src/f20eaec301e97c4f9cc75177f2848d24adb70a01/COPYING Lines 24, 25: "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE", "Version 2 [...] ==> Yes, he can. Mauro, it seems you have some general misconceptions about the license you are working with. The GPL is copyleft. This means you may not change the license. But you may change the code as much as you like and redistribute it under the terms of the original license. Btw, this also applies to additional "Copyright"-notices by authors of new parts of a driver, as far as it does not change the copyright of any original autors or the license terms of the GPL v2: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/47411 ==> Yes, the GPL /is/ copyleft. -- 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
