On 123, 05 03, 2006 at 10:44:48AM -0400, David Hollis wrote: > On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:28 +0200, Michael Helmling wrote: > > > So, what this Mr. Srihdar di wrong is to set his own name in the > > "copyright" > > field instead of using yours. The process of modifying a GPLed module > > itself > > is ok, am I right with this? > > So it should be possible to convince him of this nuisance, and then use the > > changes he made to make moschips device working. > > Correct. He is violating the license in a number of ways, though it > probably isn't totally intentional. The development on that driver > probably began before usbnet was modularized to allow for the > componentizing of driver specific code outside of usbnet.
After looking at mcs7830.c source this seems highly unlikely. > What he > should do would be to create a moschip.c that uses usbnet as a support > module - just like asix.c does. In this file, he can have his sole > Copyright attribution and not have to worry about following > changes/updates to usbnet. Of course, if he communicated his > development efforts with the community, he would have received all of > this information long ago and we'd likely help shake out bugs in the > code to make it a more robust driver. IMHO we should do it now. If there is no volunteers, I can try to do it, but it will be my first USB driver, so don't expect results soon.
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