On 2025-08-28 16:21:55, Alan C. Assis wrote: > We cannot look at the Linux source code, because it is GPL license, but we > can look at the FreeBSD code: https://wiki.freebsd.org/arm/Raspberry%20Pi
Like who's even gonna prove you've looked at GPL code when implementing rpi support? If you don't copy paste code, but learn protocol and what register to write in what order noone is gonna do anything. With that logic in mind, my last project must be turned into GPL because I peeked into Linux kernel how they drive some peripheral. You must have read some GPL code in your life. You probably even wrote something *very* similar. Does that make code GPL? If I was implementing something in Linux for rpi4 does that disqualify me from contributing? Don't blatantly copy-paste code from Linux Kernel, but learn from it and implement with your own way. You don't copy code, you learn from it. This is not copywritable. If you reverse engineer some secret nvidia gpu, yes, you want to be crazy extra and just reject anyone that had anything to do with nvidia. But this is open source and free code. And you are doing open source and free software. I think it's 100% safe to look at Linux to leare how things work - not to steal the code.
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