Re: [PATCH] hwmon/hdaps: Fix bug 7154 inversion of separate axis

[Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>]

On Sun, 15 Feb 2009 13:41:15 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 15, 2009 at 10:27:07AM +0100, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Feb 2009 19:32:02 -0500, Shem Multinymous wrote:
> > > See the table at the bottom of the tp_smapi page
> > > (http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Tp_smapi), or hdaps.c inside the
> > > tp_smapi package, for more model-specific information.
> > > It would be nice if you made the interface (constants and their
> > > meaning) the same as in the tp_smapi version of hdaps, which is
> > > already widely deployed and packaged by several distros.
> > 
> > Why is this code not upstream? Ah yeah, I remember now: because it was
> > written by an anonymous developer, which makes the contribution legally
> > dubious. Copying such code into the upstream version of hdaps would be
> > no different, so we cannot do that, sorry.
> 
> You're arguing that sysfs interfaces are copyrightable?

I'm not arguing anything. I'll let you, Shame Multithing and anyone
else with too much spare time argue whatever you want. Me, I have many
more useful things to do.

Thanks but no thanks,
-- 
Jean Delvare