Re: VirtualBox Guest Drivers

[Gerard Lally <lists+netbsd.port.amd64%netmail.ie@localhost>]

At date and time Fri, 14 Nov 2014 14:23:34 +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon (NetBSD) wrote:

> 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.

Was this ever taken any further?

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Gerard Lally