Possible GPL violation by Avermedia

[Mikhail Gusarov]

> > Avermedia released binary-only drivers for Linux for they TV tuner
> > card "AVerTV Hybrid+FM Cardbus (E506R)":
> > http://www.avermedia.com/cgi-bin/support_driverbympdpro.asp?category=TV%20Cardbus&category2=Hybrid&proname=17&modelno=E506R.
> > Their driver is named saa713x.

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> I have been looking at the website.  even downloaded the driver
> (both windows and linux) and couldn't find any source except for
> some tools in the linux driver.

I was probably not clear. I obtained the information about the
proprietary driver by looking into it with 'objdump'.

For the reference, the source repository for v4l Linux kernel is here:
http://linuxtv.org/hg/v4l-dvb

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