Re: Hauppage WinTV PVR-250/350

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On Wed, 2003-01-08 at 12:34, Alan Cox wrote:
> > NB: some people recommend *against* looking at those drivers for
> > legal reasons, if you want to develop your own.  You have to
> > make up your own mind about that; I've googled but found nothing
> > conclusive.  Well, if nothing else they may burn your eyes and
> > fry your brain. ;-)  See
> 
> Its a common approach - the risk is you might use their code by
> accident. Really you should have two [teams of] people. The first
> documents the functionality of the card (not the driver), the second
> writers a driver to that spec.

I have heard second hand that connexant approved creating GPL drivers by
people who had seen the initial drivers. It would be good to see it in
writing though.

-- 
Torgeir Veimo <torgeir@xxxxxxxxx>





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