From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from dd6204.kasserver.com ([85.13.131.2]:46727 "EHLO dd6204.kasserver.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751628AbaAPKl1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 16 Jan 2014 05:41:27 -0500 Received: from [192.168.178.28] (p4FD55178.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.213.81.120]) by dd6204.kasserver.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 3CD84D20188 for ; Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:41:25 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <52D7B697.4090104@datenparkplatz.de> Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 11:38:15 +0100 From: Ulrich Lukas MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Patch for TechnoTrend S2-4600 References: <52C9975A.2060900@tu-dortmund.de> <20140115144238.07f7261f@samsung.com> In-Reply-To: <20140115144238.07f7261f@samsung.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-media-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Am 15.01.2014 17:42, schrieb Mauro Carvalho Chehab: > You can't simply extract those patches from some other tree and send, without > the driver's author ack. > https://bitbucket.org/liplianin/s2-liplianin-v37/src/f20eaec301e97c4f9cc75177f2848d24adb70a01/COPYING Lines 24, 25: "GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE", "Version 2 [...] ==> Yes, he can. Mauro, it seems you have some general misconceptions about the license you are working with. The GPL is copyleft. This means you may not change the license. But you may change the code as much as you like and redistribute it under the terms of the original license. Btw, this also applies to additional "Copyright"-notices by authors of new parts of a driver, as far as it does not change the copyright of any original autors or the license terms of the GPL v2: > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.drivers.video-input-infrastructure/47411 ==> Yes, the GPL /is/ copyleft.