[vdr] Re: [linux-dvb] Re: Bad news (summary)

[Michael Schumacher <Michael.S.Schumacher@gmx.de>]

Hi Martin, you wrote:

> A single company cannot dominate the market anymore by defining the
> technical standards of digital television. The Linux community owns
> the source code of digital television technology based on open
> standards like DVB and MHP. Thus we are able to change today`s
> television to whatever we like. This is why I am confident about the
> future of LinuxTV.

I do appreciate the work of companies like yours very much and I do
wholeheartly agree with you ideas of free software.
Maybe it is a little bit rude to come up with this issue now, but as
far as I know, not all parts of the DVB-driver are under the
GPL. Wouldn't you agree that if Convergence really would shut down its
business that the logical and consequent step would be to publish the
missing parts (the ARM-code as far as I remember) under the GPL .
Please get me right, I can imagine that this proposal is a heavy blow
in your situation, but what could be the future of the VDR project if
the support for the underlying DVB-driver would disappear without the
possibility for the community to adapt the code as required?


best regards,
Michael