On 09/02/2014 10:23 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Em Tue, 02 Sep 2014 21:54:24 +0200 > Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: > >> On 09/02/2014 09:21 PM, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: >>> Em Tue, 26 Aug 2014 08:33:12 +0200 >>> Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> escreveu: >>> >>>> From: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> >>>> >>>> Add support for the tw68 driver. The driver has been out-of-tree for many >>>> years on gitorious: https://gitorious.org/tw68/tw68-v2 >>>> >>>> I have refactored and ported that driver to the latest V4L2 core frameworks. >>>> >>>> Tested with my Techwell tw6805a and tw6816 grabber boards. >>>> >>>> Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> I would be expecting here the William M. Brack's SOB too. >> >> Sorry, that's not possible. The only email I have no longer works. I googled >> to see if I could find another email without success. I met him years >> ago during an ELC and he was a retired engineer, so he may not even be >> around anymore. His gitorious.org repo has been inactive for over two years. >> >>> >>> Also, the best is to add his original work on one patch (without Kbuild >>> stuff) and your changes on a separate patch. That helps us to identify >>> what are your contributions to his code, and what was his original >>> copyright wording. >> >> Are you sure you want that in the mainline kernel? His code is in gitorious, >> a link to that is in the commit log. I'm not too keen to add code to the >> kernel which is promptly being overwritten by another version. An alternative >> might be to add a link to that repo to tw68-core.c as well so that it is >> not just in the commit log but also in the source code. > > There's no way to warrant that his gitorious repository will stay there > forever. We need to have the reference code somewhere, if something ever > complain about copyrights, especially since you're not able to contact > the author of the driver. OK, I'll prepare a new pull request tomorrow. Regards, Hans -- 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
