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pegasus2000
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 Posted: Sun Jan 18, 2009 8:47 am Post subject: What is the license of the original PiKey driver ? |
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With the new version of Nanodesktop (0.3.6) I'll release a version of
the PiKey driver called ndPiKeyDriver.Prx.
In a document that will be redistribuited with the driver, I must signal
the things regarding the original code and the copyright.
ndPiKeyDriver.Prx derives from PiKey driver of Fanjita.
My question is: what is the license of the original driver ? |
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angelo
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:51 am Post subject: |
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| There are none! Go ahead and use it. I asked Fanjita 3+ times to use his work... never got a reply. |
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pegasus2000
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:34 am Post subject: |
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| angelo wrote: | | There are none! Go ahead and use it. I asked Fanjita 3+ times to use his work... never got a reply. |
Thanks for the answer.
A curiosity: have you the Targus Keyboard ?
I want to see if you can save my life... |
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Wally
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 9:42 am Post subject: |
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| angelo wrote: | | There are none! Go ahead and use it. I asked Fanjita 3+ times to use his work... never got a reply. |
Fanjita has a child now, so of course he's not going to reply right away :) |
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Art
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You're best off emailing through the noobz web site.
I had some luck with that.
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If not actually, then potentially. |
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jean
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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| The pikey plugin's structure is so simple that you could study it and then rewrite it on your own being free from licenses in minutes. This -however- does not mean that i understand/approve your use of custom licenses in an open-source/GPL environment like this (if we are still messing around with PSP's homebrews is due to the intrinsic being free of the whole scene, even if you look at it from the legal point of view). Pay attention to the fact that your source code can be whatever license you like, but for binaries redistribution the story changes slightly: binaries' licenses are often subject to the number/type of links you use and to the compiler you used to generate them. Whenever a lincense is missing you can consider it to be a Public Domain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain) and this - despite the lack in restrictions on possible uses - somehow collides with patents/copy rights/intellectual property. Dig the remaining yourself... |
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pegasus2000
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| Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 8:59 pm Post subject: |
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| jean wrote: | | The pikey plugin's structure is so simple that you could study it and then rewrite it on your own being free from licenses in minutes. This -however- does not mean that i understand/approve your use of custom licenses in an open-source/GPL environment like this (if we are still messing around with PSP's homebrews is due to the intrinsic being free of the whole scene, even if you look at it from the legal point of view). Pay attention to the fact that your source code can be whatever license you like, but for binaries redistribution the story changes slightly: binaries' licenses are often subject to the number/type of links you use and to the compiler you used to generate them. Whenever a lincense is missing you can consider it to be a Public Domain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain) and this - despite the lack in restrictions on possible uses - somehow collides with patents/copy rights/intellectual property. Dig the remaining yourself... |
In fact, all components of Nanodesktop has a document that explains
the original paternity and the original license of the driver.
This is because I want to respect the rights of the original coders. |
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pegasus2000
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| Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 9:25 am Post subject: |
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| angelo wrote: | | There are none! Go ahead and use it. I asked Fanjita 3+ times to use his work... never got a reply. |
Angelo, do you know how I can contact Fanjita ? I need someone
that knows the internal working of PiKey and that gives me
some informations... |
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