Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> In my country, it wouldn't be even legal. > > It's legal for the GPL license since that gives explicit permission. In my country, claiming authorship (not co-authorship) of someone's code is illegal. Even if done with author's permission. >> I have at least one similar situation here. I'm using frame grabber >> drivers for an I.MX6 processor on-chip feature. The problem is, the >> author hasn't yet managed (for years now) to have this functionality >> merged into the official tree. Obviously, I'm putting some considerable >> work in it. Does this mean I'm free to grab it as my own and request >> that it is to be merged instead? No, I have to wait until the original >> work is merged, and only then I can ask for my patches to be applied >> (in the form of changes, not a raw driver code). > > Wrong. As long as the original code is distributed as GPL you can > certainly take it, fix it and ask for it to be merged. > > This happens all the time if the original author has left the scene, or has > no time or interest to follow-up on his patches. This doesn't seem to be applicable in either case. > For future reference: if someone posts code to a kernel mailinglist and does > not fix any comments made on the code in, let's say, 1-2 months, then > someone else might just step in. Oh, come on. I let it go because Ezequiel wrote he had rewritten the driver and wanted to merge it instead. I first asked for diffs vs. my code, but in case of a rewrite such diffs don't make sense. I don't say nobody is allowed to take my work and add his own on top. Actually, this was what I proposed at least twice. Is there a problem with rebasing his work on top of mine, and showing the real changes? Git makes it easy. -- Krzysztof Halasa Industrial Research Institute for Automation and Measurements PIAP Al. Jerozolimskie 202, 02-486 Warsaw, Poland -- 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
