Re: [PATCH] USB: serial: cp210x: Implement GPIO support for CP2102N

[Johan Hovold]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 08:04:32PM +0200, Bjørn Mork wrote:
> Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> 
> >> Not quite. It is not from a forum post, but from a SiLabs Knowledge
> >> Base article
> >> (https://www.silabs.com/community/interface/knowledge-base.entry.html/2017/06/12/fletcher_checksumfo-TeDF)
> >
> > Yeah, that's the one I was referring to.
> >
> >> That article states explicitly that the code was taken from Wikipedia,
> >> so it is CC-SA, which is to the best of my knowledge 1) compatible
> >> with GPL, and 2) does not require attribution if the original material
> >> is missing it, and it does. So AFAICT we are clear on the licensing
> >> front.
> >
> > First of all I can't seem to find that code snippet on the wiki page it
> > does refer to, so I'm still not convinced.
> 
> It was there in older versions of the article.  See for example:
> https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fletcher%27s_checksum&oldid=730327006

Ah, thanks for digging that out.

> > Second, this should have been high-lighted in your submission somehow.
> 
> Definitely. All code has an original author who deserves credit.  And if
> you cannot find the original author, then there is always a risk than
> someone along the line stole the code...  Maybe long before it ended up
> in Wikipedia.  But that doesn't matter.
> 
> Doesn't seem worth the risk for a simple checksum algorithm which
> probably has lots of GPL implementations.

Right.

Johan