On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 01:50:31PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > Quoting Juergen Lock <n...@jelal.kn-bremen.de> (from Tue, 22 Feb 2011 > 12:37:53 +0100): > > > On Tue, Feb 22, 2011 at 09:26:41AM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote: > >> Quoting Juergen Lock <n...@jelal.kn-bremen.de> (from Mon, 21 Feb 2011 > >> 19:36:11 +0100): > >> > >> > And here comes the patch for head: > >> > >> linux_dvb.h is still GPLed (not taking into account that there are > >> voices which tell that interface descriptions are not copyrightable or > >> something like this). As already told this is a no-go, the linuxulator > >> is BSD licensed. > > > > Right I should have mentioned your concerns. (I said it wouldn't > > really matter since the linuxolator already is a kld and the header > > LThe lnuxulator can be included into the kernel (think about an > embedded system where the vendor does not want to give the source). > > The authors of the v4l and v4l2 headers where contacted to get their > OK to license the headers within the BSDL (and we got their > permission), and I make the suggestion again that you do the same for > the dvb header parts you took. > > If you do not get their OK, my next suggestion is to talk to core > about it (if the LGPLed code gets committed without a note that core > is OK, I will make a call to core anyway (I will not ask to back it > out, it's up to core then to ask for a backout or not), so it may be > better to ask before committing). > > > file from which I took the definitions is LGPL'd not GPL'd [1], to > > which I didn't see an answer.) > > IMO the first L does not matter if the rest contains GPL. > > I'm really happy that you take the time to take care about DVB > compatibility, and I would like to see the code in FreeBSD, but the > linuxulator is (L)GPL free and changing this is a step backward.
Oh well so it looks like I'll really have to bug the linux folks... But first I'll have to find all the authors of the dvb-s2 api additions in linux/dvb/frontend.h that this is part of, and I'm not up to for that at least today. :) Juergen _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hackers-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"