On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:05:58PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote: > On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:01, Daniel Stone wrote: > > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:33:38PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote: > > > Attached is a patch stolen from xfree86's bugzilla (#923). > > > I've rediffed it, to fit into 4.3.0-7. Builds fine on sparc, and glx > > > apps are fine with indirect mesa rendering again. > > > (to get dri working with sunffb - fails initialization due to a missing > > > symbol - is another story; I will open a new bug for it sometime, after > > > testing a little fix discussed with DaveM) > > > > > > The corresponding upstream changeset can be found at: > > > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/GL/glx/glxext.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22 > > > > > > I don't see any problematic license changes in it. > > > > Could you please check the log message of this commit? David Dawes has > > now taken to asserting licenses in CVS commit messages, and making > > people 'assume' that anything from him is licensed under the new, bad, > > license. > > > > Moral of the story: it's not worth taking stuff from XFree86 > > unless it's contributed by someone external. > > Andreas Schwab already posted the commmit changelog, thanks Andreas! > > Well, IMHO the patch (at least most of it) is contributed by someone > external, namely Ferris McCormick, so I assume there are no license > problems to expect.
Even if this particular patch doesn't have a license problem, your
assumption is unfounded:
Log message:
64. Initial support for building 64-bit libraries on Solaris/SPARC
(Mark Kandianis).
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These changes are Copyright (c) 2004 The XFree86 Project, Inc, Author: Mark
Kandianis.
Rights as per version 1.1 of the XFree86 License
(http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html).
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