On Tue, 13 Sep 2016, Gary Buhrmaster wrote: > On Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 10:35 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know basically nothing about the HVR-1975. > > As I understand it, the HVR-1975 is essentially > a "one size fits all" redesign of the basic HVR-1900 > and the HVR-1950/1955 which is compatible with > both US and DVB standards [mostly for commercial > embedded solutions that want one SKU for either > location (it actually contains two demods)].
OK, this helps a lot... > > Hauppuage (last I knew) reportedly offered an out > of tree driver on their website for the HVR-1975, > but (again, last I knew) it was never submitted > upstream (it was reported some of the code > included non-GPL copyright, and I presume > it could not be re-licensed). There's no copyright attribution at all for the patch. I can't accept it even as-is right now because of this. Scanning the patch quickly, I didn't see anything jump out that might "smell" like any kind of secret sauce complicating a copyright. But "smell" is not a good legal test, unfortunately... -Mike -- Mike Isely isely @ isely (dot) net PGP: 03 54 43 4D 75 E5 CC 92 71 16 01 E2 B5 F5 C1 E8 _______________________________________________ pvrusb2 mailing list [email protected] http://www.isely.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pvrusb2
