this is not meant to be a "flame" towards Microfunguy. This is "just a friendly reminder", from one gpl dev who likes to code for the Canon Powershot Platform, to another.
So shoot me for having an opinion
[..] we are all enjoying [..] SDM
Quote[..] we are all enjoying [..] SDMWe do? I didnt know, honest!
About the GPL matter.Can anyone explain to me how a hacked version (as CHDK is a hacked version of the original copyrighted Canon software) can be under a GPL license?
Can anyone explain to me how a hacked version (as CHDK is a hacked version of the original copyrighted Canon software) can be under a GPL license?
There are a few people on this forum who seem think that CHDK should be the only version and that it is far superior and should have as many bells and whistles as possible. It would be nice if these people show some respect to those who think otherwise.
I've only been here a short while and have not yet seen a useful contribution from microfunguy apart from "use my forked project" -- IOW I see SDM and its commercial spinoff as a parasite project fork, taking ideas but failing to contribute.
Quote from: fvdk on 12 / July / 2009, 11:01:18Can anyone explain to me how a hacked version (as CHDK is a hacked version of the original copyrighted Canon software) can be under a GPL license?CHDK is not a hacked version of Canon firmware. Canon firmware runs on your camera just the same whether or not you boot CHDK. CHDK is not firmware. CHDK is software, parasitically loaded at boot time on the same computer Canon firmware runs on, partially using standard functions (things like printf) from Canon's chosen operating systems (DryOS on newer cams and VxWorks on older ones) and Canon's camera related functions too.Small snippets in CHDK platform code do come from each camera's firmware (parts of code handling booting, RAW, extra long exposures, video quality override to name what I remember), because that's the only way we know of to modify that functionality. If that offends someone, the build process will need to require fw dumps and those small parts will have to be taken through a disassembler, some post processing and patch. And then it'll be more truly GPL, just more tedious to build and read.
There are a few people on this forum who seem think that CHDK should be the only version and that it is far superior and should have as many bells and whistles as possible. It would be nice if these people show some respect to those who think otherwise.Funny, if you replace the "CHDK" with "SDM" in your sentence, it'd actually make sense.
I've only been here a short while and have not yet seen a useful contribution from microfunguy apart from "use my forked project" -- IOW I see SDM and its commercial spinoff as a parasite project fork, taking ideas but failing to contribute. Hits the nail on the head. That, and that alone, is what "some people" here do not like.
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