[mythtv-users] MythTV on Raspberry PI 2...

Raymond Boettcher raymondboettcher at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 4 06:26:39 UTC 2015


>On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM, jedi <jedi at mishnet.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:11:27PM +0000, Mike Perkins wrote:
>>> On 02/02/15 20:45, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:
>>> >On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Jason Sullivan <jason0x21 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> >>... Is it just a matter....
>>> >
>>> >Excellent.  Another individual suggesting they will be contributing
>>> >a MythTV feature patch.  Perhaps you and Nick should work
>>> >together on the patch (to avoid duplicate effort).
>>> >
>>> >Or do you mean "is it just a matter" of a skilled someone
>>> >ELSE (re)factoring some code with a completely different set
>>> >of presumptions and internal APIs to write some complicated
>>> >code?
>>> >
>>> >If it "is just a matter" of trivial work, perhaps you could choose
>>> >the gstreamer video decoding library, which already supports
>>> >almost all of the existing SoC decoders (openmax, vivante,
>>> >vaapi, mali, vdpau).  One API to rule them all?
>>> >  Obligatory xkcd ref:  http://xkcd.com/927/
>>> >
>>> Really, really irritating reply.
>>>
>>> All the guy was asking was if that was a possible approach to the
>>> problem. Nobody was suggesting that a patch would be forthcoming or
>>> even that it was worth doing.
>>>
>>> Before a patch can be written it is necessary to know if the
>>> suggested approach would solve the problem.
>>>
>>> Try easing up on people sometimes.
>>
>>    I dunno. Finding some method to "steal code" from XBMC seems like a
>> genuis idea. They seem to have a lot more resources and developers. If
>> there were anyway to snarf their stuff, it seems like a that would
>> ultimately be a net gain.

> is it stealing if you use code from GPL2 project and add it to another
> GPL2 project?
The short answer is NO, that is the point of GPL.  There are conditions for doing so and before going any further, I would read this:
http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
The very first topic under the Preamble is "Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution and Modification."

  
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