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

["Dr. Werner Fink" <werner@suse.de>]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2001 at 06:15:26PM +0100, Michael Schumacher wrote:
> 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?

AFAIK this code/lib is only given away under NDA.


        Werner