From: <Vil...@no...> - 2010-08-23 08:03:42
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On Fri, Aug 20, 2010 at 6:50 PM, Peter Stuge <pe...@st...> wrote:> > Vil...@no... wrote: > > > - It would have been great if you had been active on this mailing > > > list earlier. > > > > Unfortunately, for various legal reasons alone we couldn't do that. > > I'm sure you understand that code drops are useless in open source > projects. > > Communication is key. If you can not communicate openly then you can > not contribute efficiently either. > > Talk to your management. If upstream hotplug functionality is a > priority then communication is a hard requirement. > > If any hotplug functionality (ie. a local version) is the priority > then remember that you are bound by the library's license and you > must provide your source to whomever you ship the binaries to. > Sending a patch to this mailing list is not sufficient. > > I view the patch as a first communication, but I think it's a little > too early (much Windows going on now) and judging from initial > comments the implementation might not be so clean. But it's a start! > Something we can discuss. I hope you'll participate. > > //Peter That's exactly the intention behind the patch. That it would be a start, a first communication as you said, but nothing more. I've tried to say before that it is the hotplug functionality that is important to us, not the implementation or the design of it and I haven't said or implied that this is an urgent matter for us. Legal issues aside, we also thought that doing some work of our own would be a good way to approach this project. A way of showing our interest towards it and our willingness to participate and support it. After all, actions tend to speak much louder than words. ;) Best Regards, Ville Eskelinen |