[linux-dvb] Re: =?utf-8?Q?=E5=9B=9E=E8=A6=86:?= VisionPlus Vp-1020 DVB card

[Manu Abraham <manu@kromtek.com>]

>  > > As I told you, we will open the driver source code to the public in
>  > > the very near future (could be on Dec/15). Before that, if you might
>  > > sign an NDA, I can release the source code for your private reference.
>
> So, did they forget about that NDA? :-)
>

	In the end they didn't want an NDA, said they wanted to open up


>
> That's of course also understandable but in the case of the Twinhan
> cards most of the stuff is hidden in the microcontrollers
> anyway. Opening the drivers does not tell competitors too much about
> the internals. But I guess the microcontroller programs also were
> ripped off by the clone makers ...
>


	In china that happens to an extremely large extent.


> To clear this up, this was definitely from code already present in
> snapshots of my (GPLed) bttv driver in early 1995, before any BSD code went
> public. But let's not talk about this or even some other parts of the just
> released sources ...
>
>


	Let's not talk about it anymore as they have totally openend up.

> Ralph



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