lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2002]   [May]   [26]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
    /
    Date
    From
    SubjectRe: [patch] New driver for Artop [Acard] controllers.

    Oh, I see. So if I were to go back to ARTOP to request a copy of your
    signed NDA to develop this driver, they would provide me the legal records
    showing you were given all the documents neccessary to write a proper
    driver. This is very interesting concept. You could not have derived a
    driver without using my Copyrighted GPL material. So you have illegally
    removed Copyrights, renamed the operations, and called it your own.

    Nice ... But it still makes you plagirist, and this is what I have always
    knew about you. Maybe this is cool in the general Linux community,
    however, I will be asking for a legal brief from FSF. Since you were only
    permitted to modify the file and add your copyright to the changes if
    appropriate.

    All of the original code described how to make the hardware operate. If
    your code makes the hardware operate, then it uses material copyrighted
    and owned by me.

    I suggest you think real hard and long about your decisions to go about
    calling derived works from stolen/deleted Copyrights.

    Regards,

    Andre Hedrick
    LAD Storage Consulting Group

    On Sun, 26 May 2002, Vojtech Pavlik wrote:

    > On Fri, May 24, 2002 at 10:07:36PM -0700, 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.
    >
    > I don't delete copyrights, where applicable. However, in this case, none
    > of the original code stayed, not a single line - I first wrote a spec
    > based on the old driver and then wrote a new driver from scratch based
    > on that spec. So, you really don't have a copyright on the new Artop
    > driver, sorry.
    >
    > > 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
    >
    > --
    > Vojtech Pavlik
    > SuSE Labs
    >

    -
    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/

    \
     
     \ /
      Last update: 2005-03-22 13:26    [W:4.174 / U:0.004 seconds]
    ©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site