Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 19:32:01 -0500 (EST) From: John Wehle <john@feith.com> To: julian@elischer.org Cc: multimedia@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Integrating the Hauppauge WinTV PVR 250 driver into the source tree Message-ID: <200412290032.iBT0W1Si002517@jwlab.FEITH.COM>
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> YES.. though.. who would sign the agreement? > What does Ken suggest? Ken put my name in the agreement since I was the person who contacted him. I don't believe he has a strong preference other than it be someone who is in an appropriate position and will act in good faith. If the driver is being integrated in the FreeBSD source tree, then I'd feel more comfortable with the agreement being signed by a FreeBSD officer. > BTW, is there any mention of an ongoing plan by which updated firmware > may be substituted? (e.g. for bugfixes or to support new versions of > the hardware) Here's the guts of the agreement: Permission is granted to LICENSEE to extract the two firmware images (encoding and decoding) from the file HCW98GP2.SYS as distributed in the WinTV-PVR-250350 driver version 1.7 or later. The extracted firmware images may only be used for the purpose of being loaded into the WinTV-PVR-250 or WinTV-PVR-350 during FreeBSD driver installation by suitable kernel drivers. No disassembly or any form of reverse engineering will be allowed under this license agreement. Furthermore, packaging these firmware images in installation files for FreeBSD and deploying these files under the same license as the WinTV-PVR-250350 drivers is granted. Notice the phrase "version 1.7 or later" which should cover firmware updates. BTW: I've see problems using a later firmware release ... currently I recommend using: encoder firmware version 0x2040011 decoder firmware version 0x2020023 -- John ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | Feith Systems | Voice: 1-215-646-8000 | Email: john@feith.com | | John Wehle | Fax: 1-215-540-5495 | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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