Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030204AbWECNbF (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 09:31:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030205AbWECNbE (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 09:31:04 -0400 Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:6806 "EHLO fmmailgate01.web.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030204AbWECNbD (ORCPT ); Wed, 3 May 2006 09:31:03 -0400 From: Michael Helmling To: David Brownell Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] New, yet unsupported USB-Ethernet adaptor Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 15:28:15 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <200605022002.15845.supermihi@web.de> <200605030706.56908.supermihi@web.de> <200605022229.47937.david-b@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200605022229.47937.david-b@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart23902187.IZIZQcOlZZ"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200605031528.18809.supermihi@web.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1659 Lines: 51 --nextPart23902187.IZIZQcOlZZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:29, David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 10:06 pm, Michael Helmling wrote: >=20 > They just hacked "usbnet". =A0There are huge chunks of code, and comments, > that are clearly identical. =A0At least half of the "moschip" driver. >=20 Then what they did really isn't right. > "M Subrahmanya Srihdar" didn't "accidentally" copy the bulk of usbnet,=20 > remove all > the attributions, and replace them ... not possible. =A0There were certai= nly a=20 > few > chip-specific additions of course, right where "usbnet" expects them, but= =20 > the > core driver is obviously all "usbnet" code. So, what this Mr. Srihdar di wrong is to set his own name in the "copyright= "=20 field instead of using yours. The process of modifying a GPLed module itsel= f=20 is ok, am I right with this? So it should be possible to convince him of this nuisance, and then use the= =20 changes he made to make moschips device working.=20 Regards, Michael --nextPart23902187.IZIZQcOlZZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBEWK/ycLJiNWFgTBIRAk+1AKDIoPdiNkFC2Z5EktouGaKGFejOlwCfZPGP EvkSbDBnOA0Xk4YElNFxkWA= =PyvD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart23902187.IZIZQcOlZZ-- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/