Bug#383403: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Michael Poole
Nathanael Nerode writes: > In the Linux kernel, > drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c > > contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other > driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. > > Not short sequences, really long ones. > > This is not ju

Bug#383403: Vicam driver appears to contain misappropriated code

2006-09-25 Thread Nathanael Nerode
In the Linux kernel, drivers/media/video/usbvideo/vicam.c contains *long* sequences which appear to have been lifted from some other driver without permission or attribution, probably by wire-sniffing. Not short sequences, really long ones. This is not just nondistributable, it's actually likely