Am 15.01.2014 17:42, schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
> You can't simply extract those patches from some other tree and send, without
> the driver's author ack.

>
https://bitbucket.org/liplianin/s2-liplianin-v37/src/f20eaec301e97c4f9cc75177f2848d24adb70a01/COPYING

Lines 24, 25: "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE", "Version 2 [...]

==> Yes, he can.


Mauro, it seems you have some general misconceptions about the license
you are working with.

The GPL is copyleft. This means you may not change the license. But you
may change the code as much as you like and redistribute it under the
terms of the original license.


Btw, this also applies to additional "Copyright"-notices by authors of
new parts of a driver, as far as it does not change the copyright of any
original autors or the license terms of the GPL v2:

>
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/47411

==> Yes, the GPL /is/ copyleft.


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