Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-12 Thread Marcel Siegert
Markus Rechberger schrieb:
 For example you (first trying to help, afterwards doing nothing),
 * Manu Abraham (who has his project split from the maintree for a very
 long time too),
its not really splitted, is it?
imho it is just seperated by now as loads of changes are involved.
from my knowledge, if its finished its merged into main repo again.

 * Marcel Siegert (who listens to other people's opinion and didn't
 even spend a minute on thinking by himself how to find a solution)
BULLSHIT! - sorry for shouting -
i made a proposal in IRC - do you remember?
it was concerning NO dvb changes and your devices/drivers could have 
been merged without this still happening personal markus rechberger,
i work for amd and i am the greatest discussion.

next thing i proposed in irc in a private talk. german language was
taken to absolutely be sure that NO misunderstanding will take part.
what has your reaction been on that?
like always - No, i wont agree to that kind of way
i just proposed to merge ALL of your patches, and, afterwards to rework
it to the better solution!
that IS how community works, but you always regret to perform any kind
of compromise!

Facts are: your patches would have been merged already if you would
have been more cooperative
YOU missed all offers, like mine, or the one johannes did.
   you just complain about all those bad people in the
   linux dvb community
you send cc's to your very own em28xx ml, and if someone
does a normal reply all you blame him to spam your ml

sorry markus, but you dont have to call others like buttlicker while
not being able to look into a mirror.

imho, i dont care what you do, but if you want to perform everything
on your own as YOU said, please start over, and take away EVERYTHING!
even these bloody damned discussions on the linuxdvb ml.

and, dont start to cry if someone will take your old GPL'ed code,
as a base to implement the devices in a acceptable way, and therefore
will make your very own project/split off obsolete.

without regards
marcel








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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/10/07, Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
  Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update
  it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it
  won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it.
  I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's

 It's funny you should say this, since 99% of the code you are distributing
 came from linuxtv in the first place!


Trent, I believe you're smart enough to see the problem behind
everything .. the license stuff is the smallest part of everything;
I don't steal and obfuscate code and remove the copyrights.
And I for sure will not tell anyone how he has to do his work after a
discussion where I didn't seriously participate.
The code as it is will get removed sooner or later and replaced with a
smaller package which only contains the necessary drivers.

I wonder what you try to gain by bothering about the license there all
you can win is the removal of the code there and the release of the
replacement of the around 80% finished reworked code. So please stay
serious and better try to fix the community problems that something
like that won't happen again.

Markus

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
 On 7/10/07, Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
   Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update
   it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it
   won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it.
   I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's
 
  It's funny you should say this, since 99% of the code you are distributing
  came from linuxtv in the first place!
 
 Trent, I believe you're smart enough to see the problem behind
 everything .. the license stuff is the smallest part of everything;
 I don't steal and obfuscate code and remove the copyrights.
 And I for sure will not tell anyone how he has to do his work after a
 discussion where I didn't seriously participate.
 The code as it is will get removed sooner or later and replaced with a
 smaller package which only contains the necessary drivers.
 
 I wonder what you try to gain by bothering about the license there all
 you can win is the removal of the code there and the release of the
 replacement of the around 80% finished reworked code. So please stay
 serious and better try to fix the community problems that something
 like that won't happen again.

I wonder what you mean by I don't want my work to be stolen by
linuxtv people?

You had your code up for download on linuxtv.org and then on mcentral.de
for months, and you asked lots of people to download and test it, which
IMHO clearly is distribution under the GPL.

So everyone who downloaded it has every right granted by the GPL
to modify and redistribute your code under the GPL, which implies
it could be merged it into the main linuxtv.org tree and eventually
the kernel. Of course it doesn't make sense to merge unsupported code
(which even has known issues wich need to be resolved first), however if
someone would adopt it I see no (legal) reason for not merging it.

Maybe you don't like this to happen, but IMHO all the
people who downloaded and tested your code, and contributed
back in form of bug reports, hardware information, patches etc.
wouldn't have done so if they had known that your code would
not be merged into the mainline kernel. Some people might even
have bought hardware after they read though your Wiki pages,
under the impression that it was well supported by Linux.

Of course you are free to do whatever you like with the
code written by you, but everyone else is free to do
what the GPL permits them with the code distributed by
you under the GPL.


Johannes

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
I would appreciate if you could stop spamming the em28xx ML since I
prefer to use it for relevant issues; Currently there are around 200
people registered most of them aren't interested in internal linuxtv
issues.

Try to resolve all existing relevant problems first (since there are a
few other problems out there within the linuxtv core developer(s)
community)

-Markus

On 7/11/07, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 11, 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
  On 7/10/07, Trent Piepho [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update
it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it
won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it.
I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's
  
   It's funny you should say this, since 99% of the code you are
 distributing
   came from linuxtv in the first place!
 
  Trent, I believe you're smart enough to see the problem behind
  everything .. the license stuff is the smallest part of everything;
  I don't steal and obfuscate code and remove the copyrights.
  And I for sure will not tell anyone how he has to do his work after a
  discussion where I didn't seriously participate.
  The code as it is will get removed sooner or later and replaced with a
  smaller package which only contains the necessary drivers.
 
  I wonder what you try to gain by bothering about the license there all
  you can win is the removal of the code there and the release of the
  replacement of the around 80% finished reworked code. So please stay
  serious and better try to fix the community problems that something
  like that won't happen again.

 I wonder what you mean by I don't want my work to be stolen by
 linuxtv people?

 You had your code up for download on linuxtv.org and then on mcentral.de
 for months, and you asked lots of people to download and test it, which
 IMHO clearly is distribution under the GPL.

 So everyone who downloaded it has every right granted by the GPL
 to modify and redistribute your code under the GPL, which implies
 it could be merged it into the main linuxtv.org tree and eventually
 the kernel. Of course it doesn't make sense to merge unsupported code
 (which even has known issues wich need to be resolved first), however if
 someone would adopt it I see no (legal) reason for not merging it.

 Maybe you don't like this to happen, but IMHO all the
 people who downloaded and tested your code, and contributed
 back in form of bug reports, hardware information, patches etc.
 wouldn't have done so if they had known that your code would
 not be merged into the mainline kernel. Some people might even
 have bought hardware after they read though your Wiki pages,
 under the impression that it was well supported by Linux.

 Of course you are free to do whatever you like with the
 code written by you, but everyone else is free to do
 what the GPL permits them with the code distributed by
 you under the GPL.


 Johannes



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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Marcel Siegert
forwarded to linuxdvb as i used my private not the list account :/


On Wednesday 11 July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
 I would appreciate if you could stop spamming the em28xx ML since I
 prefer to use it for relevant issues; Currently there are around 200
 people registered most of them aren't interested in internal linuxtv
 issues.
 
 Try to resolve all existing relevant problems first (since there are a
 few other problems out there within the linuxtv core developer(s)
 community)
 
 -Markus
 

hey markus,

please calm down again.

YOU sended an email to linux-dvb ml including a cc to your very own em28xx ml.

it is normal to REPLY TO ALL if someone answers this.

dont claim johannes to spam the em28xx ml, as this is a discussion that again 
shows
how non-cooperative _you_ are, you may just want not your users to know it!

regards
marcel


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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread timecop
On 7/11/07, Marcel Siegert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 forwarded to linuxdvb as i used my private not the list account :/

One more reason why this list should have reply-to set to linux-dvb,
its a total pain in the ass to reply to all and then cut linux-dvb
email from CC into To: and remove everyone else from there.

Spam, spam.

-tc

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Alasdair Campbell
On 11/07/07, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 I would appreciate if you could stop spamming the em28xx ML since I
 prefer to use it for relevant issues; Currently there are around 200
 people registered most of them aren't interested in internal linuxtv
 issues.

As an outsider to this discussion - but nonetheless an interested
party - I find this sort of approach really dispiriting. Do I have to
point out that you yourself have been CC'ing the em28xx ML right up
until this very last post?

Accusing anybody of spamming on a subject this important to all
parties - the licensing - serves very little purpose whatsoever, other
than inflaming emotions, and nobody wishes for that.

as a postscript..
On 2007/7/10, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update
 it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it
 won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it.
 I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's
 too easy to look over the code change a few lines and obfuscure my
 work, remove the copyright and that's what I'm concerned about. I
 wouldn't mind about it if it wouldn't happen with that linuxtv
 community.

You can't pick and choose who receives their rights under the GPL and
who doesn't (surely this is one of the benefits!), you just have to
live with it.

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/11/07, Alasdair Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 11/07/07, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  I would appreciate if you could stop spamming the em28xx ML since I
  prefer to use it for relevant issues; Currently there are around 200
  people registered most of them aren't interested in internal linuxtv
  issues.

 As an outsider to this discussion - but nonetheless an interested
 party - I find this sort of approach really dispiriting. Do I have to
 point out that you yourself have been CC'ing the em28xx ML right up
 until this very last post?

 Accusing anybody of spamming on a subject this important to all
 parties - the licensing - serves very little purpose whatsoever, other
 than inflaming emotions, and nobody wishes for that.

 as a postscript..


right that was my fault, sorry.

 On 2007/7/10, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update
  it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it
  won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it.
  I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's
  too easy to look over the code change a few lines and obfuscure my
  work, remove the copyright and that's what I'm concerned about. I
  wouldn't mind about it if it wouldn't happen with that linuxtv
  community.

 You can't pick and choose who receives their rights under the GPL and
 who doesn't (surely this is one of the benefits!), you just have to
 live with it.


Well I don't close the development because of all that it just goes
another path around linuxtv.org. In general it's no big deal anymore
with the existing code since I already put it into userspace.
It will be an issue with newer drivers which I do not intend to share
with a group of people who are unable to discuss technical issues and
just try to cut everyone down.

Remember all that code could have been in the kernel for around 1 year
without breaking any device if these few core people (and there are
really only very few ones 5) wouldn't have tried to hit it down.

I'm sure the project would go on way faster if everyone who has never
investigated the dvb core project and who has no experience with that
piece of code (and writing a dvb driver doesn't shed much light about
the dvb framework) would just stay out of everything.

It's now about 14.000 lines of code, around 7000 inkernel lines, and I
haven't received _any_ participation request of any developer and all
you get if you ask people to join the project is that they are busy
with their work (which is ok) but then don't try to manipulate someone
else's work in the end.
Nothing is getting better here if linuxtv.org people don't work together.

Companies will for sure not like to rely on such a mess where finally
a few wannabes try to play the smart guys and are responsible that
support for alot devices won't get into the kernel.

Markus

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:18:35PM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote:

 Remember all that code could have been in the kernel for around 1 year
 without breaking any device if these few core people (and there are
 really only very few ones 5) wouldn't have tried to hit it down.

This the bad linuxtv guys blocked my drivers for years
allegation is unsubstancial as I tried to show in
http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-June/018853.html

IMHO it is your inability to make compromises and work with
the community which blocked the merge. Issues don't just
magically resolve all by themselves if you just wait long enough.
Your attempts to force the merge with flames and ultimatums
(yes, plural) failed. Surprise, surprise...

 I'm sure the project would go on way faster if everyone who has never
 investigated the dvb core project and who has no experience with that
 piece of code (and writing a dvb driver doesn't shed much light about
 the dvb framework) would just stay out of everything.

You think you're the only competent programmer, and everyone
who dares to have different opinions just gets in the
way and holds you up? Check this out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Diagnostic_criteria

 It's now about 14.000 lines of code, around 7000 inkernel lines, and I
 haven't received _any_ participation request of any developer and all
 you get if you ask people to join the project is that they are busy
 with their work (which is ok) but then don't try to manipulate someone
 else's work in the end.
 Nothing is getting better here if linuxtv.org people don't work together.

If I look at hg or git logs I get the impression that the
community still works.

 Companies will for sure not like to rely on such a mess where finally
 a few wannabes try to play the smart guys and are responsible that
 support for alot devices won't get into the kernel.

...


Johannes

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/11/07, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:18:35PM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote:
 
  Remember all that code could have been in the kernel for around 1 year
  without breaking any device if these few core people (and there are
  really only very few ones 5) wouldn't have tried to hit it down.

 This the bad linuxtv guys blocked my drivers for years
 allegation is unsubstancial as I tried to show in
 http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-June/018853.html


A few people offered to help you is the same as:

A few people (especially the ones which are mentioned later) partly
don't have a good overview about everything, and/or neither do they
care about several requirements which are needed to get something work
properly.
And these cool people would just work on the core and tell me that I
have to redo the code by myself and put all the work back to me just
because they're incapable of working together at all ... and hey we
had exactly the same situation 1 year ago and the only one who
seriously tried to get forward was Mauro. A few people like to hide
themself between their great DVB Code and try to play the masters here
which is not acceptable.

How comes that Manu tells me that he won't ask Mauro that he should
push any of his code? Great community.

 IMHO it is your inability to make compromises and work with
 the community which blocked the merge. Issues don't just
 magically resolve all by themselves if you just wait long enough.
 Your attempts to force the merge with flames and ultimatums
 (yes, plural) failed. Surprise, surprise...

  I'm sure the project would go on way faster if everyone who has never
  investigated the dvb core project and who has no experience with that
  piece of code (and writing a dvb driver doesn't shed much light about
  the dvb framework) would just stay out of everything.

 You think you're the only competent programmer, and everyone
 who dares to have different opinions just gets in the
 way and holds you up? Check this out:
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Diagnostic_criteria


For example you (first trying to help, afterwards doing nothing),
* Manu Abraham (who has his project split from the maintree for a very
long time too),
* Marcel Siegert (who listens to other people's opinion and didn't
even spend a minute on thinking by himself how to find a solution)
* Oliver Endris, did some tests and afterwards denied the merge
because he found a bug which got resolved right after he reported it.

There were a few options, freeze the development of v4l-dvb merge in
that code and fix whatever someone thinks he has to fix; there are
many requirements covered within that code and all you guys did is to
ignore it and nothing else.. Manu came up with something and didn't
even talk to me about it if it would be ok with the work I've done and
guess what he didn't even cover all the requirements which are already
solved.

Now, all the other developers are far away from such a misbehaviour.

  It's now about 14.000 lines of code, around 7000 inkernel lines, and I
  haven't received _any_ participation request of any developer and all
  you get if you ask people to join the project is that they are busy
  with their work (which is ok) but then don't try to manipulate someone
  else's work in the end.
  Nothing is getting better here if linuxtv.org people don't work together.

 If I look at hg or git logs I get the impression that the
 community still works.


as long as they don't cross the mind of people which are mentioned
right above. But as you wrote earlier guess what the issues are still
unsovled.

-Markus

  Companies will for sure not like to rely on such a mess where finally
  a few wannabes try to play the smart guys and are responsible that
  support for alot devices won't get into the kernel.

 ...


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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Julian
Since this disscussion is public...
I'm going to put in my 2 cents.

If you actually read his posts - Like alot of end users are. Its the flames 
and personal attacks that are coming from the group mentality here (im sure 
theres a wiki that can explain that too)

So if we are talking about changes to the core and how v4l and dvb devices 
will work under linux in the future. He/they with the best solution will win 
via non-bias peer review and hopefully *beyond* the linuxtv project. So if 
Markus persists enough (he seems the only one consistently reworking what he 
has already done - but everyone seems to skim past that in his posts...) he 
will succeed.

I admire anyone that makes an effort against the status quo that fails to move 
anywhere really, and spends more effect resisting any kind of change than 
actually doing anything or offering an alternative.

Just because he is outnumbered with support here means absolutely nothing.
May the best code win.

Your attempts to force the merge with flames and ultimatums
(yes, plural) failed. Surprise, surprise...

how soft do people get with their drivers that they see a patch submission - 
as a flame? great fear patch bomb? it another year or so you might find that 
no patch will save you at all..no..its called a re-write then.
The more you put it off, the worse its going to get. 

Time will tell.
Trial and error is what its all about. remember .
So Just try it.
-Jules

On Thu, 12 Jul 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
 On 7/11/07, Johannes Stezenbach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Wed, Jul 11, 2007 at 05:18:35PM +0200, Markus Rechberger wrote:
   Remember all that code could have been in the kernel for around 1 year
   without breaking any device if these few core people (and there are
   really only very few ones 5) wouldn't have tried to hit it down.
 
  This the bad linuxtv guys blocked my drivers for years
  allegation is unsubstancial as I tried to show in
  http://www.linuxtv.org/pipermail/linux-dvb/2007-June/018853.html

 A few people offered to help you is the same as:

 A few people (especially the ones which are mentioned later) partly
 don't have a good overview about everything, and/or neither do they
 care about several requirements which are needed to get something work
 properly.
 And these cool people would just work on the core and tell me that I
 have to redo the code by myself and put all the work back to me just
 because they're incapable of working together at all ... and hey we
 had exactly the same situation 1 year ago and the only one who
 seriously tried to get forward was Mauro. A few people like to hide
 themself between their great DVB Code and try to play the masters here
 which is not acceptable.

 How comes that Manu tells me that he won't ask Mauro that he should
 push any of his code? Great community.

  IMHO it is your inability to make compromises and work with
  the community which blocked the merge. Issues don't just
  magically resolve all by themselves if you just wait long enough.
  Your attempts to force the merge with flames and ultimatums
  (yes, plural) failed. Surprise, surprise...
 
   I'm sure the project would go on way faster if everyone who has never
   investigated the dvb core project and who has no experience with that
   piece of code (and writing a dvb driver doesn't shed much light about
   the dvb framework) would just stay out of everything.
 
  You think you're the only competent programmer, and everyone
  who dares to have different opinions just gets in the
  way and holds you up? Check this out:
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder#Diagnostic
 _criteria

 For example you (first trying to help, afterwards doing nothing),
 * Manu Abraham (who has his project split from the maintree for a very
 long time too),
 * Marcel Siegert (who listens to other people's opinion and didn't
 even spend a minute on thinking by himself how to find a solution)
 * Oliver Endris, did some tests and afterwards denied the merge
 because he found a bug which got resolved right after he reported it.

 There were a few options, freeze the development of v4l-dvb merge in
 that code and fix whatever someone thinks he has to fix; there are
 many requirements covered within that code and all you guys did is to
 ignore it and nothing else.. Manu came up with something and didn't
 even talk to me about it if it would be ok with the work I've done and
 guess what he didn't even cover all the requirements which are already
 solved.

 Now, all the other developers are far away from such a misbehaviour.

   It's now about 14.000 lines of code, around 7000 inkernel lines, and I
   haven't received _any_ participation request of any developer and all
   you get if you ask people to join the project is that they are busy
   with their work (which is ok) but then don't try to manipulate someone
   else's work in the end.
   Nothing is getting better here if linuxtv.org people don't work
   together.
 
  If I look 

Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread Johannes Stezenbach
On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:49:30AM +1000, Julian wrote:
 Since this disscussion is public...
 I'm going to put in my 2 cents.
 
 If you actually read his posts - Like alot of end users are. Its the flames 
 and personal attacks that are coming from the group mentality here (im sure 
 theres a wiki that can explain that too)

Hm, Markus complains that the community doesn't work, and you're
complaining that it _does_ work -- or what do you mean by
group mentality?

 So if we are talking about changes to the core and how v4l and dvb devices 
 will work under linux in the future. He/they with the best solution will win 
 via non-bias peer review and hopefully *beyond* the linuxtv project. So if 
 Markus persists enough (he seems the only one consistently reworking what he 
 has already done - but everyone seems to skim past that in his posts...) he 
 will succeed.
 
 I admire anyone that makes an effort against the status quo that fails to 
 move 
 anywhere really, and spends more effect resisting any kind of change than 
 actually doing anything or offering an alternative.
 
 Just because he is outnumbered with support here means absolutely nothing.
 May the best code win.

Markus always portrays it that way, that there is a group of evil
guys who block his code, who mislead him, who want to retain the
status quo etc. pp.  And now he is the lonely hero who stands up
against the establishment...

IMHO that is complete rubbish. There isn't even a formal group
of linuxtv core developers. I'm glad that Mauro agreed to
merge the DVB and V4L trees into one, and to do the patch handling
for the combined tree. And I'm glad Mike and Trent do a lot of
patch review and bugfixing work, unseen and unrewarded
my most people. Does that give them any authority to ACK and NACK
patches as they see fit? Hell, no! But the community process works
that way that if someone reviews a patch and has objections, then
these objections must either be addressed or shown to be wrong.
(Read Documentation/ManagementStyle in the kernel to see how it works ;-)

In Markus case, serveral people who looked at his patches had
objections, but he refused to address them, but was unable to
either show the objections as being wrong, or get a _single_ other
developer to back up his position. Instead there were threats
to fork the linuxtv project if his code wouldn't get merged...

The sad thing is that only a relatively small part of Markus'
code has problems, and the bulk of it could have been merged
without it, leaving out the xc3028 v4l/dvb arbitration functionality.
But Markus didn't want this.

Anyway, there are many patches which are rejected from the
Linux kernel or have to go through significant transformations
before they are allowed into the kernel. You should read the
linux kernel mailing list for a while, maybe you'd then see
that the entry level for patches into v4l/dvb is fairly low
compared to the high standards required for core kernel code
like scheduler, timekeeping, networking, VM, block IO layer etc.

 Your attempts to force the merge with flames and ultimatums
 (yes, plural) failed. Surprise, surprise...
 
 how soft do people get with their drivers that they see a patch submission - 
 as a flame?

That's not what I said, I can tell a patch submission from a flame
quite well, thanks.


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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-11 Thread hermann pitton
Am Donnerstag, den 12.07.2007, 00:37 +0200 schrieb Johannes Stezenbach:
 On Thu, Jul 12, 2007 at 03:49:30AM +1000, Julian wrote:
  Since this disscussion is public...
  I'm going to put in my 2 cents.
  
  If you actually read his posts - Like alot of end users are. Its the flames 
  and personal attacks that are coming from the group mentality here (im sure 
  theres a wiki that can explain that too)
 
 Hm, Markus complains that the community doesn't work, and you're
 complaining that it _does_ work -- or what do you mean by
 group mentality?
 
[snip]

I would be happy enough if Markus' would start telling, why he still
keeps this tuner=37 stuff for his MK3s. --everyone knows that THIS
DOESN'T work for UHF.

Instead some tell you meanwhile, that MK3/4/5/6 tuners work with the old
Philips API and you should accept their patches. No move since more than
one year on that. So, others wait too.

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/10/07, Jakob Petsovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Saturday, 7. July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
  only my new sources are MPL licensed there; the v4l-dvb maincode is of
  course GPL.
  Even though it doesn't matter anymore the people who lead me to that
  step know how the code will get merged into the kernel now. It's out
  of the scope of linuxtv.org due useless delaying all that work.

 Er, excuse my baffledness, but how do you plan to get code merged into the
 kernel if it isn't GPL?


there's nothing to worry about, the modified target code is GPL again.

 Also, mind that the GPL being viral means that any code which bases on GPL
 sources must be GPL (or GPL compatible) as well. Afaik, the MPL is not GPL
 compatible, so if you put your new code exclusively under the MPL and at the
 same time use the GPL-licensed v4l-dvb maincode as a base, you are violating
 the GPL.

 I am not a lawyer, of course. Please consult someone with good insight, for
 example, the Software Freedom Law Center at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

 Regards,
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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Marcel Siegert
On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
 On 7/10/07, Jakob Petsovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Saturday, 7. July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
   only my new sources are MPL licensed there; the v4l-dvb maincode is of
   course GPL.
   Even though it doesn't matter anymore the people who lead me to that
   step know how the code will get merged into the kernel now. It's out
   of the scope of linuxtv.org due useless delaying all that work.
 
  Er, excuse my baffledness, but how do you plan to get code merged into the
  kernel if it isn't GPL?
 
 
 there's nothing to worry about, the modified target code is GPL again.

  Also, mind that the GPL being viral means that any code which bases on GPL
  sources must be GPL (or GPL compatible) as well. Afaik, the MPL is not GPL
  compatible, so if you put your new code exclusively under the MPL and at the
  same time use the GPL-licensed v4l-dvb maincode as a base, you are violating
  the GPL.
 
  I am not a lawyer, of course. Please consult someone with good insight, for
  example, the Software Freedom Law Center at http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
 
  Regards,
Jakob
 
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at least for my understanding, markus, please explain to me that,
if you use v4l/dvb core functions that are licensed GPL, your code IS
also GPL automatically, isn't it?

and, as you told before, why is there a need to intermediate license to MPL?

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/10/07, Marcel Siegert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
  On 7/10/07, Jakob Petsovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Saturday, 7. July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
only my new sources are MPL licensed there; the v4l-dvb maincode is of
course GPL.
Even though it doesn't matter anymore the people who lead me to that
step know how the code will get merged into the kernel now. It's out
of the scope of linuxtv.org due useless delaying all that work.
  
   Er, excuse my baffledness, but how do you plan to get code merged into the
   kernel if it isn't GPL?
  
 
  there's nothing to worry about, the modified target code is GPL again.
 
   Also, mind that the GPL being viral means that any code which bases on GPL
   sources must be GPL (or GPL compatible) as well. Afaik, the MPL is not GPL
   compatible, so if you put your new code exclusively under the MPL and at 
   the
   same time use the GPL-licensed v4l-dvb maincode as a base, you are 
   violating
   the GPL.
  
   I am not a lawyer, of course. Please consult someone with good insight, 
   for
   example, the Software Freedom Law Center at 
   http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
  
   Regards,
 Jakob
  
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 at least for my understanding, markus, please explain to me that,
 if you use v4l/dvb core functions that are licensed GPL, your code IS
 also GPL automatically, isn't it?

 and, as you told before, why is there a need to intermediate license to MPL?


Marcel, sorry this code is out of the scope of linuxtv, it's simply
none of your business; A solution has been discussed with Linus and
Mauro already. I do not want that my code gets reused by the linuxtv
project without my authority (eg preventing code stealing).

I'd appreciate if that thread can discontinue at that part, the very
few active linuxtv developers who participated at the merging threads
forced me to go another way since I'm not interested in further
delays, you guys already delayed it for more than 1 year.. so feel
lucky.

So in case of the few linuxtv devs I would say the code is not
intended to get compiled;
In case of endusers I'd say take the code use and test it and submit
bugreports if there are any, I'm try to answer all the mails on the
em28xx ML (only very few might be delayed for a certain amount of
time)

thanks,
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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Christoph Pfister
Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2007 12:08 schrieb Markus Rechberger:
 On 7/10/07, Marcel Siegert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
   On 7/10/07, Jakob Petsovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Saturday, 7. July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
 only my new sources are MPL licensed there; the v4l-dvb maincode is
 of course GPL.
 Even though it doesn't matter anymore the people who lead me to
 that step know how the code will get merged into the kernel now.
 It's out of the scope of linuxtv.org due useless delaying all that
 work.
   
Er, excuse my baffledness, but how do you plan to get code merged
into the kernel if it isn't GPL?
  
   there's nothing to worry about, the modified target code is GPL again.
  
Also, mind that the GPL being viral means that any code which bases
on GPL sources must be GPL (or GPL compatible) as well. Afaik, the
MPL is not GPL compatible, so if you put your new code exclusively
under the MPL and at the same time use the GPL-licensed v4l-dvb
maincode as a base, you are violating the GPL.
   
I am not a lawyer, of course. Please consult someone with good
insight, for example, the Software Freedom Law Center at
http://www.softwarefreedom.org/
   
Regards,
  Jakob
   
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  at least for my understanding, markus, please explain to me that,
  if you use v4l/dvb core functions that are licensed GPL, your code IS
  also GPL automatically, isn't it?
 
  and, as you told before, why is there a need to intermediate license to
  MPL?

 Marcel, sorry this code is out of the scope of linuxtv, it's simply
 none of your business; A solution has been discussed with Linus and
 Mauro already. I do not want that my code gets reused by the linuxtv
 project without my authority (eg preventing code stealing).

 I'd appreciate if that thread can discontinue at that part, the very
 few active linuxtv developers who participated at the merging threads
 forced me to go another way since I'm not interested in further
 delays, you guys already delayed it for more than 1 year.. so feel
 lucky.

 So in case of the few linuxtv devs I would say the code is not
 intended to get compiled;
 In case of endusers I'd say take the code use and test it and submit
 bugreports if there are any, I'm try to answer all the mails on the
 em28xx ML (only very few might be delayed for a certain amount of
 time)

 thanks,
 Markus

Nice try, but I highly doubt that it'll work out. Your code is a derived work 
of GPL'ed code (even using tricks like glue code doesn't help _per se_; not 
to be derived work would mean that the code can reasonably work without using 
any GPL-only bits ...).
So you can't prevent the copyright holders of the GPL'ed code you're using 
from enforcing the license (except if they did some dual-licensing or gave 
you explicit permission allowing you to use their code in this way).

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/10/07, Christoph Pfister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Am Dienstag, 10. Juli 2007 12:08 schrieb Markus Rechberger:
  On 7/10/07, Marcel Siegert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
   On Tuesday 10 July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
On 7/10/07, Jakob Petsovits [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On Saturday, 7. July 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
  only my new sources are MPL licensed there; the v4l-dvb maincode is
  of course GPL.
  Even though it doesn't matter anymore the people who lead me to
  that step know how the code will get merged into the kernel now.
  It's out of the scope of linuxtv.org due useless delaying all that
  work.

 Er, excuse my baffledness, but how do you plan to get code merged
 into the kernel if it isn't GPL?
   
there's nothing to worry about, the modified target code is GPL again.
   
 Also, mind that the GPL being viral means that any code which bases
 on GPL sources must be GPL (or GPL compatible) as well. Afaik, the
 MPL is not GPL compatible, so if you put your new code exclusively
 under the MPL and at the same time use the GPL-licensed v4l-dvb
 maincode as a base, you are violating the GPL.

 I am not a lawyer, of course. Please consult someone with good
 insight, for example, the Software Freedom Law Center at
 http://www.softwarefreedom.org/

 Regards,
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   at least for my understanding, markus, please explain to me that,
   if you use v4l/dvb core functions that are licensed GPL, your code IS
   also GPL automatically, isn't it?
  
   and, as you told before, why is there a need to intermediate license to
   MPL?
 
  Marcel, sorry this code is out of the scope of linuxtv, it's simply
  none of your business; A solution has been discussed with Linus and
  Mauro already. I do not want that my code gets reused by the linuxtv
  project without my authority (eg preventing code stealing).
 
  I'd appreciate if that thread can discontinue at that part, the very
  few active linuxtv developers who participated at the merging threads
  forced me to go another way since I'm not interested in further
  delays, you guys already delayed it for more than 1 year.. so feel
  lucky.
 
  So in case of the few linuxtv devs I would say the code is not
  intended to get compiled;
  In case of endusers I'd say take the code use and test it and submit
  bugreports if there are any, I'm try to answer all the mails on the
  em28xx ML (only very few might be delayed for a certain amount of
  time)
 
  thanks,
  Markus

 Nice try, but I highly doubt that it'll work out. Your code is a derived work
 of GPL'ed code (even using tricks like glue code doesn't help _per se_; not
 to be derived work would mean that the code can reasonably work without using
 any GPL-only bits ...).
 So you can't prevent the copyright holders of the GPL'ed code you're using
 from enforcing the license (except if they did some dual-licensing or gave
 you explicit permission allowing you to use their code in this way).


em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code; em28xx is
derived from GPL code but worthless without the other files. Also
people can write whatever they want as long as they don't compile it
and fact is that the code is still available.
Don't compile it against v4l-dvb and it's fine..
I can have whatever sourcecode I want to have on that server.

I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few
linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable
of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get
forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the
endresult.
Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the
merging requests are responsible for that.

Most people are welcome to participate at the latest work I have,
people who participated at recent discussions about getting the code
which now is in question merged are not welcome anymore.

thanks,
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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Aidan Thornton
On 7/10/07, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code; em28xx is
 derived from GPL code but worthless without the other files. Also
 people can write whatever they want as long as they don't compile it
 and fact is that the code is still available.
 Don't compile it against v4l-dvb and it's fine..
 I can have whatever sourcecode I want to have on that server.

I suspect there are all sorts of interesting legal issues here. In
particular, the GPL is intended to cover entire works - relicensing
individual source files in a GPLed piece of software in a
non-GPL-compatible way when those files are intended to be combined
with other source files which are still GPLed is a grey area at best.
Since I'm not a lawyer, and I can't afford to hire one, this makes me
want to not touch this code with a bargepole. I suppose I could always
fork the GPL-licensed version, but getting it to compile with new
kernel releases would be a real pain.

(Incidentally, I assume that, since you say that em2880-dvb and
xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code, you rewrote em2880-dvb
from scratch at some point. It certainly looks that way, but I know
that I did have some code in em2880-dvb at one point.)

 I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few
 linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable
 of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get
 forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the
 endresult.
 Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the
 merging requests are responsible for that.

Basically, I'm left without a working, maintained, legally sound Linux
driver for the hardware I'm using, through no fault of my own (except
perhaps relying on an out-of-tree driver by someone who turns out to
be unable to co-operate with the v4l and dvb developers).

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread timecop
On 7/10/07, Aidan Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

I noticed one thing,
You sure seem to have plenty of time to argue about utterly irrelevant shit.
But you couldn't spare 5 minutes of your life to agree on accepting
this code a year ago.
I think this is purely your loss at this point, just eat it up, shut
up, stop playing lawyers, and get back to coding (or whatever you do).

-tc

 On 7/10/07, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code; em28xx is
  derived from GPL code but worthless without the other files. Also
  people can write whatever they want as long as they don't compile it
  and fact is that the code is still available.
  Don't compile it against v4l-dvb and it's fine..
  I can have whatever sourcecode I want to have on that server.

 I suspect there are all sorts of interesting legal issues here. In
 particular, the GPL is intended to cover entire works - relicensing
 individual source files in a GPLed piece of software in a
 non-GPL-compatible way when those files are intended to be combined
 with other source files which are still GPLed is a grey area at best.
 Since I'm not a lawyer, and I can't afford to hire one, this makes me
 want to not touch this code with a bargepole. I suppose I could always
 fork the GPL-licensed version, but getting it to compile with new
 kernel releases would be a real pain.

 (Incidentally, I assume that, since you say that em2880-dvb and
 xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code, you rewrote em2880-dvb
 from scratch at some point. It certainly looks that way, but I know
 that I did have some code in em2880-dvb at one point.)

  I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few
  linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable
  of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get
  forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the
  endresult.
  Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the
  merging requests are responsible for that.

 Basically, I'm left without a working, maintained, legally sound Linux
 driver for the hardware I'm using, through no fault of my own (except
 perhaps relying on an out-of-tree driver by someone who turns out to
 be unable to co-operate with the v4l and dvb developers).

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/10/07, Aidan Thornton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 On 7/10/07, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code; em28xx is
  derived from GPL code but worthless without the other files. Also
  people can write whatever they want as long as they don't compile it
  and fact is that the code is still available.
  Don't compile it against v4l-dvb and it's fine..
  I can have whatever sourcecode I want to have on that server.

 I suspect there are all sorts of interesting legal issues here. In
 particular, the GPL is intended to cover entire works - relicensing
 individual source files in a GPLed piece of software in a
 non-GPL-compatible way when those files are intended to be combined
 with other source files which are still GPLed is a grey area at best.
 Since I'm not a lawyer, and I can't afford to hire one, this makes me
 want to not touch this code with a bargepole. I suppose I could always
 fork the GPL-licensed version, but getting it to compile with new
 kernel releases would be a real pain.

 (Incidentally, I assume that, since you say that em2880-dvb and
 xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code, you rewrote em2880-dvb
 from scratch at some point. It certainly looks that way, but I know
 that I did have some code in em2880-dvb at one point.)


Yes you had some code in there, just that you know some linuxtv people
(I don't want to name them here) wrote that the em2880-dvb module is
just wrong because of what you did. Since I know about the DVB
framework now I have to say that these people who claimed that it's
wrong have had no idea about the framework back then and that it was
fine what you did.
It is not you who went through such discussions, since I managed the
code I received these comments and instead that these people sent some
patches they just claimed that it was bad and wrong.

This community needs a change if it wants to survive and get companies
onto the boat, right now it's controlled by a few wannabes who
missleaded me in history but who never sent any patches against the
repository either to improve the parts which were in question.

  I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few
  linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable
  of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get
  forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the
  endresult.
  Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the
  merging requests are responsible for that.

 Basically, I'm left without a working, maintained, legally sound Linux
 driver for the hardware I'm using, through no fault of my own (except
 perhaps relying on an out-of-tree driver by someone who turns out to
 be unable to co-operate with the v4l and dvb developers).


hmm? if it's related to the code on mcentral.de please post a
bugreport or feature request; maybe make kernel-links is what you're
looking for, please give me some more details about this.

thanks,
Markus

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Christophe Thommeret
Le mardi 10 juillet 2007 13:17, Markus Rechberger a écrit :
 I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few
 linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable
 of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get
 forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the
 endresult.
 Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the
 merging requests are responsible for that.

 Most people are welcome to participate at the latest work I have,
 people who participated at recent discussions about getting the code
 which now is in question merged are not welcome anymore.

I will also just shut up, but first I would suggest that you leave this ml, 
so you won't be annoyed any more by useless discussions.

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread greg
On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 20:55 +0900, timecop wrote:

 I noticed one thing,

Damn guys, you (all) really need to learn how to quote.. You have lost
me completely. Not only because you all sound like a bunch of fish wifes
fresh out overdue herrings, but also because it's unclear who you are
quoting.

I have noticed one thing also. The discussion looks like one that should
be held in private between the concerned parties and not on these lists.
I'm reading way to much ego and not enough willingness to work together
to achieve (what should be) a common goal.

Kind regards,
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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Christoph Pfister
2007/7/10, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
bigsnip
 em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code; em28xx is
 derived from GPL code but worthless without the other files.

Maybe you should read what a derivative work is? And be aware that I
didn't only mean linuxtv, but also all kernel functions you use.

 Also people can write whatever they want as long as they don't compile it
 and fact is that the code is still available.
 Don't compile it against v4l-dvb and it's fine..
 I can have whatever sourcecode I want to have on that server.

You can do a lot (because you have server access) - but not everything is legal.

 I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few
 linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable
 of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get
 forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the
 endresult.
 Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the
 merging requests are responsible for that.

 Most people are welcome to participate at the latest work I have,
 people who participated at recent discussions about getting the code
 which now is in question merged are not welcome anymore.

That are your personal issues. I doubt that you're 100% innocent and
if you think that you'll have more success that way, do it that way.

Back to the MPL: After taking a closer look i had to *ROFL* (and I
think any lawyer will too) about _how_ you want to pseudo-put your
code under the MPL. Maybe you should read the license and see what
formal conditions have to be met? I dunno how you want to enforce
_anybody_ to treat your code as non-GPL'ed.

 thanks,
 Markus

Anyway, I don't have any personal interest in this issue (now I gave
my $0.02) so I won't spend any further second on it (hint: my
wastemail bin is big).

Christoph

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Markus Rechberger
On 7/10/07, Christoph Pfister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 2007/7/10, Markus Rechberger [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
 bigsnip
  em2880-dvb and xc3028-tuner are not derived from v4l code; em28xx is
  derived from GPL code but worthless without the other files.

 Maybe you should read what a derivative work is? And be aware that I
 didn't only mean linuxtv, but also all kernel functions you use.

  Also people can write whatever they want as long as they don't compile it
  and fact is that the code is still available.
  Don't compile it against v4l-dvb and it's fine..
  I can have whatever sourcecode I want to have on that server.

 You can do a lot (because you have server access) - but not everything is 
 legal.

  I'd appreciate if you could stop having useless discussions, a few
  linuxtv people proved it during the last year that they aren't capable
  of participating from the beginning on or helping at all to get
  forward, so I'd appreciate if you could just shut up and wait for the
  endresult.
  Not everyone might know why I did that, people who participated at the
  merging requests are responsible for that.
 
  Most people are welcome to participate at the latest work I have,
  people who participated at recent discussions about getting the code
  which now is in question merged are not welcome anymore.

 That are your personal issues. I doubt that you're 100% innocent and
 if you think that you'll have more success that way, do it that way.


No but who came up with code and patches? and that's the only relevant
part of everything in the end. And I worked alot with many people back
then too.

 Back to the MPL: After taking a closer look i had to *ROFL* (and I
 think any lawyer will too) about _how_ you want to pseudo-put your
 code under the MPL. Maybe you should read the license and see what
 formal conditions have to be met? I dunno how you want to enforce
 _anybody_ to treat your code as non-GPL'ed.

Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update
it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it
won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it.
I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's
too easy to look over the code change a few lines and obfuscure my
work, remove the copyright and that's what I'm concerned about. I
wouldn't mind about it if it wouldn't happen with that linuxtv
community.

-Markus

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Re: [linux-dvb] [Em28xx] MPL-licensed V4L kernel modules (em2880)

2007-07-10 Thread Trent Piepho
On Tue, 10 Jul 2007, Markus Rechberger wrote:
 Stop that MPL discussion, I can put that code offline too and update
 it with some probably nonfunctional code for several devices but it
 won't help anyone in the end - so I won't do it.
 I don't want my work to be stolen by linuxtv people in the end. It's

It's funny you should say this, since 99% of the code you are distributing
came from linuxtv in the first place!

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