From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267918AbUH2ORH (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:17:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267916AbUH2ORH (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:17:07 -0400 Received: from the-village.bc.nu ([81.2.110.252]:55936 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267893AbUH2ORE (ORCPT ); Sun, 29 Aug 2004 10:17:04 -0400 Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: pwc+pwcx is not illegal] From: Alan Cox To: Mike Keehan Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20040828183617.79096.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com> References: <20040828183617.79096.qmail@web12303.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <1093785303.27934.15.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6 (1.4.6-2) Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 14:15:03 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I'm making no comment on the legal question as to whether its a derivative work. The kernel policy for video capture has always been that format conversion belongs in user space. In other words PWCX should be returning compressed bits to user space and the pwc compression is a userspace library anyway