On Sun, Jul 02, 2006 at 11:18:43AM +0200, Hans Verkuil wrote: > On Sunday 02 July 2006 01:46, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > > Hans Verkuil writes: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Since ivtv and pvrusb2 share most of the firmware files, I thought > > > it made sense to combine them. So the firmwares for both drivers > > > can be downloaded here: > > > > > > http://dl.ivtvdriver.org/ivtv/firmware/firmware.tar.gz > > > > Going forward, would it be possible to use a different filename for > > each firmware tarball revision, instead of replacing the same file? > > Sorry, no. It's a fixed name the driver is looking for.
Sam means the tarball's name, not the contents. But I'm rather clueless as to how this could be versioned. Even a date seems wrong. > > In the US, redistributing these firmware images are not likely to be > > legal, and although I doubt that Hauppauge would have any logical > > reason to object, logic is something that US corporation are not > > really famous for. > > As I understand it there is no official permission, but unofficially > it's OK. Yes. There was a lengthy license discussion and draft proposal that was submitted to Hauppauge's legal dep that would look very similar to Intel's firmware license (in fact it was used as a base by permission from Intel's legal dep :). The license processing got stuck somehwere, I can't say for certain, but I guess it involves convincing the partners like Conexant to accept this license, too (the firmware is not simply under Hauppauge's IP). > And for the record: ivtvdriver.org is hosted in Germany. Should > anyone object I can always remove it again and extract it from their > own drivers. But that would be customer-unfriendly from them. Hauppauge won't object, and maybe we'll get a firmware license at some time. > So I'm taking my chances here. > > What would be really nice of course is if Hauppauge themselves would > distribute an archive containing the firmwares. That would be a perfect world. :) -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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