<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><br><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7767" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7766" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7765" class="y_msg_container">>On Tue, Feb 3, 2015 at 3:15 PM, jedi <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org" href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>> On Mon, Feb 02, 2015 at 11:11:27PM +0000, Mike Perkins wrote:<br clear="none">>>> On 02/02/15 20:45, Gary Buhrmaster wrote:<br clear="none">>>> >On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 8:27 PM, Jason Sullivan <<a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:jason0x21@gmail.com" href="mailto:jason0x21@gmail.com">jason0x21@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br clear="none">>>> >>... Is it just a matter....<br clear="none">>>> ><br clear="none">>>> >Excellent. Another individual suggesting they will be contributing<br clear="none">>>> >a MythTV feature patch. Perhaps you and Nick should work<br clear="none">>>> >together on the patch (to avoid duplicate effort).<br clear="none">>>> ><br clear="none">>>> >Or do you mean "is it just a matter" of a skilled someone<br clear="none">>>> >ELSE (re)factoring some code with a completely different set<br clear="none">>>> >of presumptions and internal APIs to write some complicated<br clear="none">>>> >code?<br clear="none">>>> ><br clear="none">>>> >If it "is just a matter" of trivial work, perhaps you could choose<br clear="none">>>> >the gstreamer video decoding library, which already supports<br clear="none">>>> >almost all of the existing SoC decoders (openmax, vivante,<br clear="none">>>> >vaapi, mali, vdpau). One API to rule them all?<br clear="none">>>> > Obligatory xkcd ref: <a shape="rect" href="http://xkcd.com/927/" target="_blank">http://xkcd.com/927/</a><br clear="none">>>> ><br clear="none">>>> Really, really irritating reply.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> All the guy was asking was if that was a possible approach to the<br clear="none">>>> problem. Nobody was suggesting that a patch would be forthcoming or<br clear="none">>>> even that it was worth doing.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> Before a patch can be written it is necessary to know if the<br clear="none">>>> suggested approach would solve the problem.<br clear="none">>>><br clear="none">>>> Try easing up on people sometimes.<br clear="none">>><br clear="none">>> I dunno. Finding some method to "steal code" from XBMC seems like a<br clear="none">>> genuis idea. They seem to have a lot more resources and developers. If<br clear="none">>> there were anyway to snarf their stuff, it seems like a that would<br clear="none">>> ultimately be a net gain.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">> is it stealing if you use code from GPL2 project and add it to another<br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7857">> GPL2 project?</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7855"><br></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7856">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:</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7930" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7888" dir="ltr"><a id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7887" href="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html">http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html</a></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_7922" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_8040">The very first topic under the Preamble is "Terms and Conditions for Copying, Distribution and Modification."</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_8039"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1423028837895_8024"><br></div></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>