Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 May 2002 13:08:22 +0200 | From | Vojtech Pavlik <> | Subject | Re: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers. |
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On Sun, May 26, 2002 at 02:50:25AM -0700, Andre Hedrick wrote:
> Look another pair of Copyrights deleted. > I wonder how many other people besides myself have had their copyright > deleted, too? Did you you do it to the AMD driver too? > I made a mistake in the past when I offered you the option to maintain the > via82cxxx.c chipset. IIRC, you deleted 4 Copyrights then. > > Oh well ...
Please check out the definition of 'derivative work'. Also check how much the old driver is similar to the new one and if that does constitute a derivative work as per the definition. Thanks.
> Andre Hedrick > LAD Storage Consulting Group > > > --- linux-2.5.6-timing/drivers/ide/piix.c Tue Mar 12 16:26:03 2002 > +++ linux-2.5.6-piix/drivers/ide/piix.c Tue Mar 12 20:35:40 2002 > @@ -1,499 +1,510 @@ > /* > - * linux/drivers/ide/piix.c Version 0.32 June 9, 2000 > + * $Id: piix.c,v 1.1 2002/10/10 22:58:60 vojtech Exp $ > * > - * Copyright (C) 1998-1999 Andrzej Krzysztofowicz, Author and Maintainer > - * Copyright (C) 1998-2000 Andre Hedrick <andre@linux-ide.org> > - * May be copied or modified under the terms of the GNU General Public License > + * Copyright (c) 2000-2002 Vojtech Pavlik > * > > > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Andre Hedrick wrote: > > > > > Where do you get off delete copyrights? > > GPL permits changing it does not give you the right to steal, lie, cheat, > > defraud, other peoples work. However I should not expect anything of > > honor from a person of your high morals. I know you want to rewrite the > > past to make it so I and other never existed, but you are pathetic. > > > > On Fri, 24 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote: > > > > > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 04:29:39PM +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > > > > I have a very quick look over patch/driver... looks quite ok... > > > > > > > > But it doesn't support multiple controllers. We should add 'unsigned > > > > long private' to 'ata_channel struct' and store index in the chipset > > > > table there. > > > > You can remove duplicate entries from module data table. > > > > > > > > BTW: please don't touch pdc202xx.c I am playing with it... > > > > > > Here is a new patch. Martin: This one should be OK for inclusion now. > > > Bartlomiej: Please check it anyway. > > > > > > -- > > > Vojtech Pavlik > > > SuSE Labs > > > > > > > Andre Hedrick > > LAD Storage Consulting Group > > > > - > > 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/ > >
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