From: Peter Geis <pgwipeout@gmail.com>
To: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <digetx@gmail.com>, Bob Ham <rah@settrans.net>,
Stefan Agner <stefan@agner.ch>, Rob Herring <robh+dt@kernel.org>,
Thierry Reding <thierry.reding@gmail.com>,
Jonathan Hunter <jonathanh@nvidia.com>,
Matt Merhar <mattmerhar@protonmail.com>,
Leonardo Bras <leobras.c@gmail.com>,
Michael Brougham <jusplainmike@gmail.com>,
linux-tegra@vger.kernel.org, devicetree@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Lukas Rusak <lorusak@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] Support NVIDIA Tegra-based Ouya game console
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 13:18:36 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMdYzYrNg39QmR3QDG4T5DTOht=8p4LvFon14M1J7HkEZo4KRQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <f12c1ad2-d180-8981-c3bf-db8ab6afbbaa@wwwdotorg.org>
On Wed, Oct 7, 2020 at 12:08 PM Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> wrote:
>
>
> This definitely isn't the correct attitude to copyright.
>
> The facts[1] that Ouya published the code and that it used GPL-only
> symbols certainly does imply that they *should* have published under GPL
> or a compatible license, but doesn't mean that they definitely did. The
> only way to know that for sure is for there to be evidence in the file
> content or git history, such as license headers or Signed-off-by lines.
>
> When someone writes Signed-off-by in their code submission, which is
> required to contribute to upstream Linux, they are stating/warranting
> certain things about the code they're submitting. One aspect is that
> they definitely have the rights to submit the code under the given
> license. Without evidence to this effect, or having written the code
> themselves, nobody can state/warrant this. Take a look at the following
> link to see what you're stating/warranting when writing Signed-off-by in
> a code submission:
>
> https://developercertificate.org/
>
> [1] I haven't checked the facts.
Unfortunately the only source release I've been able to find is the
last release.
Ouya purposely purged the git history for the current source release,
it's also completely lacking in signoffs and commit history.
[1] is the commit that added this driver to their source.
Their original source release had the git history intact, but I never
got a copy of it before Ouya purged it from their repos.
[1] https://github.com/ouya/ouya_1_1-kernel/commit/407e72990e39d5c29d015e21110b9497aea2dfe3
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-10-07 17:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-04 13:31 [PATCH v3 0/3] Support NVIDIA Tegra-based Ouya game console Peter Geis
2020-10-04 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] ARM: tegra: Add device-tree for Ouya Peter Geis
2020-10-05 14:02 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-10-05 14:22 ` Peter Geis
2020-10-05 14:29 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-10-05 14:29 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-10-04 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] dt-bindings: Add vendor prefix for Ouya Inc Peter Geis
2020-10-05 14:32 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-10-04 13:31 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] dt-bindings: ARM: tegra: Add Ouya game console Peter Geis
2020-10-05 14:32 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-10-05 15:47 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] Support NVIDIA Tegra-based " Thierry Reding
2020-10-07 7:22 ` Stefan Agner
2020-10-07 13:36 ` Bob Ham
2020-10-07 13:53 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-10-07 14:01 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-10-07 16:08 ` Stephen Warren
2020-10-07 17:18 ` Peter Geis [this message]
2020-10-08 5:05 ` Dmitry Osipenko
2020-11-10 17:42 ` Thierry Reding
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