Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 03 May 2006 10:44:48 -0400 | From | David Hollis <> | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] New, yet unsupported USB-Ethernet adaptor |
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On Wed, 2006-05-03 at 15:28 +0200, Michael Helmling wrote:
> So, what this Mr. Srihdar di wrong is to set his own name in the "copyright" > field instead of using yours. The process of modifying a GPLed module itself > is ok, am I right with this? > So it should be possible to convince him of this nuisance, and then use the > changes he made to make moschips device working.
Correct. He is violating the license in a number of ways, though it probably isn't totally intentional. The development on that driver probably began before usbnet was modularized to allow for the componentizing of driver specific code outside of usbnet. What he should do would be to create a moschip.c that uses usbnet as a support module - just like asix.c does. In this file, he can have his sole Copyright attribution and not have to worry about following changes/updates to usbnet. Of course, if he communicated his development efforts with the community, he would have received all of this information long ago and we'd likely help shake out bugs in the code to make it a more robust driver.
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