Re: VirtualBox Guest Drivers

["Jean-Yves Migeon (NetBSD)" <jym%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

Le 13/11/2014 19:46, Arto Huusko a écrit :
> > Who has copyright on it?
>
> Well, I'm not sure. The diff has three kinds of changes
>
>  - Very simple patches to existing files:
>    adding suitable #if defined here and there, and such
>
>  - Simple patches to existing files:
>    Config.kmk has seen a bit more work, but not much
>
>  - New files:
>
>    VBoxGuest-netbsd.c; although it seems this was originally copied 
> from
>    VBoxGuest-freebsd.c and then adapted to NetBSD in GSOC, and then 
> fixed by
>    me
>
>    drm, but this is based on vbox_drm.c that is in NetBSD src/sys, by
>    Jared McNeill. I did change it to drm2.
>
>    r0drv; this was all done initially in the GSOC, and then fixed by 
> me. But
>    here also it seems all the files were copied from FreeBSD and then
>    adjusted.

Noted.

> The initial GSOC project was done by Haomai Wang. Even though the GSOC 
> result
> was basically unusable, my changes in r0drv and VBoxGuest-netbsd.c were
> not that big to make things go. I have no idea how copyright works with 
> stuff
> that is mostly patches, and with stuff that is copy-paste from other 
> work and
> then patched.
>
> Most of my work here has gone into finding the places to patch, and 
> that is
> definitely not copyright material.

As long as all this is tracked this should not pose any problem.

I got your email address, do you have the one of Haomai Wang so I can 
put these two in the submission form for future reference? You can reply 
privately if needed.

Thanks

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Jean-Yves Migeon