On Tuesday 02 May 2006 10:06 pm, Michael Helmling wrote: > > Was it you who removed the copyrights from the "usbnet" driver and > > changed the author assertion to one "M Subrahmanya Srihdar" ?? > > I'm guessing the latter; the www.moschip.com site implies that > > its engineering HW is in India. > > No, I did not change the code in any way, it is exactly the version they > mailed me.
That's what I strongly suspected. > But I don't really understand what you are saying about the usbnet > module. They gave me the sourcecode for a yet not available kernel module > "mcs7830", not usbnet. Or did they just modify usbnet? I don't know enough > about such things to distinguish from both. They just hacked "usbnet". There are huge chunks of code, and comments, that are clearly identical. At least half of the "moschip" driver. > > Either way, blatant plagiarism and theft of copyright is unlikely > > to get into upstream kernels. > > I personally have the feeling that they didn't do this by purpose. They were > very willing to help me with the driver and don't seem to understand much of > kernel development. Anyway, if this IS a copyright violation, they should > really change it quickly. "M Subrahmanya Srihdar" didn't "accidentally" copy the bulk of usbnet, remove all the attributions, and replace them ... not possible. There were certainly a few chip-specific additions of course, right where "usbnet" expects them, but the core driver is obviously all "usbnet" code. - Dave ------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
