Re: LinuxTV ported to Windows

[Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>]

Hi Devin,

Thanks for this idea. Need to investigate.
Currently we've made porting and released the results without any 
license violations in mind ...

On 30.11.2011 20:23, Devin Heitmueller wrote:
> 2011/11/30 Abylay Ospan<aospan@netup.ru>:
>> Hello,
>>
>> We have ported linuxtv's cx23885+CAM en50221+Diseq to Windows OS (Vista, XP,
>> win7 tested). Results available under GPL and can be checkout from git
>> repository:
>> https://github.com/netup/netup-dvb-s2-ci-dual
>>
>> Binary builds (ready to install) available in build directory. Currently
>> NetUP Dual DVB-S2 CI card supported (
>> http://www.netup.tv/en-EN/dual_dvb-s2-ci_card.php ).
>>
>> Driver based on Microsoft BDA standard, but some features (DiSEqC, CI)
>> supported by custom API, for more details see netup_bda_api.h file.
>>
>> Any comments, suggestions are welcome.
>>
>> --
>> Abylai Ospan<aospan@netup.ru>
>> NetUP Inc.
> Am I the only one who thinks this is a legally ambigious grey area?
> Seems like this could be a violation of the GPL as the driver code in
> question links against a proprietary kernel.
>
> I don't want to start a flame war, but I don't see how this is legal.
> And you could definitely question whether it goes against the
> intentions of the original authors to see their GPL driver code being
> used in non-free operating systems.
>
> Devin
>

-- 
Abylai Ospan<aospan@netup.ru>
NetUP Inc.