On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: >> >> 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? >> >> That depends on wether or not the code is original code, or if it >> is a derivative of any other GPL sources. It's possible >> theoretically, but dependant on the history of the code, and also >> the author(s) wishes. > >That was kind of implicit.
To you perhaps, but not to everyone out there. Many people think you can just relicense code on a whim if you're the author, regardless of wether your work contains GPL'd bits from other things or not. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
