On Mon, 20 Sep 2004 12:29:30 -0400, Adam Jackson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > License compatibility != OS compatibility, please don't conflate the two. X > runs on more than just Linux, and source is distributed as an aggregate. If
The Linux DRM driver does not run anywhere but on Linux. The GPL code is isolated to the Linux DRM driver. I wonder if DRM isn't GPL already by accident. DRM has been included in the Linux kernel under the GPL license. DRM has also accepted many bug patches back from the kernel people. If a fork had occurred between kernel and DRM it would be clear than one fork is GPL and one BSD. But the code never forked. Since there is only one code base and that code base has been released GPL via the kernel, so we may have inadvertently made DRM GPL. I'd feel a whole lot better about the licensing if BSD and Linux DRM were split into two repositories. > it's really that big of a deal, ask the author of the GPL code to allow you > to add it to DRM under an X-friendly license. This is a waste of time. I know that some of the authors have a GPL or die attitude towards device driver code. > > Yes, I think it's silly too. > > - ajax > > > > -- Jon Smirl [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: YOU BE THE JUDGE. Be one of 170 Project Admins to receive an Apple iPod Mini FREE for your judgement on who ports your project to Linux PPC the best. Sponsored by IBM. Deadline: Sept. 24. Go here: http://sf.net/ppc_contest.php -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
