From: Abylay Ospan <aospan@netup.ru>
To: Devin Heitmueller <dheitmueller@kernellabs.com>
Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: LinuxTV ported to Windows
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2011 10:05:38 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ED72742.6020608@netup.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAGoCfiwShvPSgAPHKaxj=sMG-Fs9RdH0_3mLHYWuY96Z33AOag@mail.gmail.com>
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.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-01 7:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-11-30 16:39 LinuxTV ported to Windows Abylay Ospan
2011-11-30 17:23 ` Devin Heitmueller
2011-11-30 18:02 ` Andreas Oberritter
2011-11-30 19:33 ` Devin Heitmueller
2011-11-30 19:58 ` Andreas Oberritter
2011-11-30 20:11 ` Devin Heitmueller
2011-12-01 19:42 ` Laurent Pinchart
2011-12-01 21:18 ` Steven Toth
2011-12-01 23:10 ` Andreas Oberritter
2011-12-01 23:43 ` Steven Toth
2011-12-01 22:31 ` Andreas Oberritter
2011-12-01 7:05 ` Abylay Ospan [this message]
2011-12-02 18:03 ` Rémi Denis-Courmont
2011-12-02 22:10 ` Patrick Dickey
2011-11-30 18:46 ` Walter Van Eetvelt
2011-12-01 7:05 ` Abylay Ospan
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2011-12-02 9:35 Issa Gorissen
2011-12-02 12:48 ` Felipe Magno de Almeida
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