On Tuesday 21 September 2004 05:48, Alan Cox wrote: >On Maw, 2004-09-21 at 08:58, Kean Johnston wrote: >> That's not a statement thats safe to make. BSD (or any other OS >> that XOrg supports) may not have Linux's I2C driver system. TODAY. >> What if, next week, BSD gets such a beast, or HP-UX does, or > >Well they can't use the low level Linux code anyway, because its GPL >licensed and likely to stay that way. > >> If XOrg is trying to be "license agnostic", it is going to need >> to stay away from the GPL. The current MIT style license seems to >> be quite acceptable to GPL-centric projects. However, the reverse >> is not (always) true. > >Thats a shame. I guess its time to take DRI back out of the Xorg > tree if this kind of extremist view is the preferred one, or just > keep the kernel code in the Linux kernel and remove it from X.org ?
And can you define what the effect of that would be on how well it runs? -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.26% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- 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
