On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:04:00AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: > It's GPL licensed unfortunately. Only MIT licensed code is > accepted into XFree86, so this driver will never be included. > That means once kernel 2.6 is standard, the majority of laptop > users with synaptics touchpads will have to rely on their OS > distribution to provide the GPL driver, or will have to compile > it themselves. > > The only other option would be for someone to write a brand new > driver for synaptics and license it as MIT, without looking at > the GPL driver's source code. It's possible to do a clean room > implementation, but I'm not sure if anyone would really want to > bother when there's a working driver already.
Well, couldn't the upstream author just relicense it? -- Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org "Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement" -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list
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