Messages in this thread | | | From | Krzysztof Hałasa <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v2] MEDIA: Driver for ON Semi AR0521 camera sensor | Date | Wed, 23 Jun 2021 07:28:11 +0200 |
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Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> writes:
> How does a lack of an SoB line prevent someone from doing exactly what > you've described above ?
The work is not published under GPL.
> Maintainers usually understand these issues. They may fail to notice, > but if you point out a patch that would steal your work, that would > prevent it from being merged.
I'd like to believe this as well. Unfortunately, it doesn't work like that. See the "tw686x" (an SD TV frame grabber) case. I didn't even request that the other driver wasn't merged. I only wanted it as a patch on top of the original one - so the history could be visible. -- Krzysztof Hałasa
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