On Wednesday 03 May 2006 07:29, David Brownell wrote: > On Tuesday 02 May 2006 10:06 pm, Michael Helmling wrote: > > They just hacked "usbnet". There are huge chunks of code, and comments, > that are clearly identical. At least half of the "moschip" driver. > Then what they did really isn't right. > "M Subrahmanya Srihdar" didn't "accidentally" copy the bulk of usbnet, > remove all > the attributions, and replace them ... not possible. There were certainly a > few > chip-specific additions of course, right where "usbnet" expects them, but > the > core driver is obviously all "usbnet" code. So, what this Mr. Srihdar di wrong is to set his own name in the "copyright" field instead of using yours. The process of modifying a GPLed module itself is ok, am I right with this? So it should be possible to convince him of this nuisance, and then use the changes he made to make moschips device working. Regards, Michael
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