> On Mon, Mar 01, 2004 at 06:44:38PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote: >>On Llu, 2004-03-01 at 14:34, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: >>> The client libraries are still distributed under the old license, so >>> there is no problem linking GPLed libraries or apps to the 4.4 >>> libraries. Which means there is no longer a reason for those >>> distributions not to include 4.4 any more. >> >>There are several reasons, including for example the X Vnc servers >> which also use GPL code in the server > > The GLX licence is problematic for this also, given that it is used in > the server. Both the freedesktop.org and x.org trees also > included this problematic GLX code last I checked. I think it > would be good all around if each of these projects, including the > DRI project, made a clear licensing policy statement. As everyone > should know by now, you can't be a little bit GPL-incompatible. > Either you are or you aren't. >
It's certainly a can of worms. I'm not particularly interested in the subtle differences between licenses, but I can say that the GLX-licenced code doesn't have much to do with the DRI project in particular - I believe it came directly from SGI and their license has been maintained since then. All the changes from this project (to my knowledge) have been intended to fall under a license comparable to the older, previous, uncontentious XFree86 one. If there are issues with the continued use of the GLX code, the first step would be to approach SGI and request a change of license. I've no idea if this would be succesful or not. I've also no idea if it is necessary or not. I'll leave this up to others with more interest in licenses than I have. There was an independently-developed GLX implementation (Utah-GLX). If worst came to worst, that could be revived. I'm not at all convinced this is the case or will become the case. I'd like someone to convince me there was a problem before any actual steps are taken. Keith ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net is sponsored by: Speed Start Your Linux Apps Now. Build and deploy apps & Web services for Linux with a free DVD software kit from IBM. Click Now! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=1356&alloc_id=3438&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
