[linux-dvb] Re: linuxtv.org etc

[Holger Waechtler <holger@qanu.de>]

Johannes Stezenbach wrote:

> Holger Waechtler wrote:
>  
> > Johannes Stezenbach wrote:
> >    
> > > linuxtv.org and directfb.org are hosted on a server which is rented
> > > privately. Convergence sponsored the hosting and traffic costs for a
> > > while, then it was privately financed, and now we found another sponsor
> > > (a small Berlin based company) who agreed to pay the server
> > > costs in exchange for a small "sponsored by" company logo on the
> > > homepage. The content of the new homepages for linuxtv.org and
> > > directfb.org is not copyrighted by convergence, and all source
> > > code is released under GPL or LGPL.
> > >      
> > copyright and license are two different things, the copyright is hold by 
> > convergence and the code authors (depending on whether they got paid for 
> > it or not), the licenses allow everybody to use it under the terms of 
> > the GPL/LGPL/whatever.
> >    
> Yeah, sorry if I was unclear, by "content of the new homepages"
> I mean text/html (and the Wiki, of course), not CVS contents and
> download tarballs. There is no license for the text on the webpages,
> but as I wrote them in my spare time (inpsired by the contents of
> the old webpages), the directfb.org pages were done by Dok in his
> spare time, they are not copyrighted by Convergence (except maybe
> for the old news entries). So in case someone is paranoid about it:
> whatever happens with Convergence, no one could demand that we take
> the pages offline because of copyright issues.
>  
yes.

Holger