On 03/04/2013 05:13 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: > 07.11.2012 01:45, Stephen Warren пишет: >> On 11/06/2012 01:06 PM, Dmitry Osipenko wrote: >>> 06.11.2012 21:38, Stephen Warren wrote: >>>> OK, so only you and he have the binaries built from this repository? Or, >>>> are those binaries distributed to other people too? If the binaries are >>>> distributed, you need to distribute (or offer to make available) the >>>> source too. See the GPL for exact requirements. >>> >>> I'm not against GPL, but for now repo is private. It's something like nvidia's >>> private downstream kernel that I'm working on. Surely it will become public but >>> bit later. >>> >>>> OK, so if I accept the private repo link, download the source, and >>>> repost it on my github account, you're fine with that? If not, then >>>> you're requesting something semantically equivalent to an NDA. >>> >>> For me it's not very important, but my companion may be unhappy with that. I >>> just believe that you are not so evil. As I understand NDA should be some >>> legally valid official document. I'm sure you are much better in this than me, >>> so let's stop discussing it. >>> >>>> However, I'd ask that we resolve the distribution issues of the source >>>> kernel first to avoid any tainting of the patch. >>> >>> I don't see any issues. It's my personal work that I'm contributing to the >>> kernel community. If nvidia is against of any public contributions just tell me. >> >> NVIDIA and indeed the kernel community welcome public contributions. >> >> However, the rules in SubmittingPatches (as set by the kernel community, >> not NVIDIA) are clear re: the licensing requirements for patches. If >> you're taking the patches from a downstream kernel that's published as >> binaries and not source, I believe that makes the patches non-compliant >> (since there's a GPL violation in the downstream kernel, so the patches >> can't be passed off as being GPL compliant), and hence your >> signed-off-by line is not valid. >> >> Once the downstream kernel's source is publicly available, I imagine >> there will be no problem accepting patches that are derived from it. >> > > Hello, Stephen. I made my recent work on kernel public and it's available > at https://bitbucket.org/digetx/picasso-kernel/ It contains all patches that > I have sent and has some small fixes that I will send later. Hope there is no > problem anymore and you would like to continue reviewing my patches. Sure. So long as you've read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, and fully understood exactly what Signed-off-by means and the GPL, I have no problem taking patches. It's been a while, so I'd suggest reposting any patches. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tegra" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
