[mythtv-users] HD-PVR2 support (please vote)

[Rich Freeman]

On Sun, Aug 9, 2015 at 4:45 PM, John P Poet <jppoet at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have sent Hauppauge several emails over the last several months asking for
> development information for the HD-PVR2.  I explain that I am a MythTV
> developer and would like to add support for it.  In each case their response
> has been just a terse "It is still in beta".  They don't seem to have any
> interest in a MythTV developer adding support for the device.

I see it for sale on Amazon - clearly the hardware isn't in beta.

I take it they don't just publish the specs on how it works?  I guess
reverse-engineering would be a pain - I'm not sure how obfuscated
existing driver software is.

I'm not really super-excited about the idea of having binary blobs in
mythtv.  At the very least it should be easy to strip them out when
packaging it in a free-software-only config.  They should also be
issued under a redistributable license unless they're separated from
the rest of the sources so that we don't have to stop mirroring
mythtv.

Right now I have MythTV listed as licensed under GPL-2.  That seems
pretty simple to me.  Why complicate things?

None of this is a slight on Kernel Labs.  I'm sure they do good work.
It just sounds like it wouldn't be FOSS.

Would they be willing to accept payment to put the code in the
mainline kernel instead?  I'm sure they'd want more money for the
source, and that seems fair enough assuming people are willing to chip
in.

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Rich