On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 21:02, Matthew Garrett <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 01:59:37PM -0600, Robert Noland wrote: >> On Fri, 2009-11-20 at 18:43 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> > This one works better, including some amount of support for the internal >> > GPU sensor. It seems to give reasonable results on all the cards I have >> > here. >> >> So, I obviously have concerns/objections to allowing GPL code into drm. >> Especially, since this code doesn't do anything interesting or >> innovative that I can see. It just reads registers via i2c... I mean >> how else would you do it? > > It contains code cut and paste from nvclock (a GPLed codebase) and uses > functions that are specific to the Linux kernel. I don't have the legal > expertise to be able to claim it's not a derived work. >
An alternative would be to ask Roderick if he's ok to relicense the bits from nvclock. Doesn't look like a lot from what I can see. Stephane _______________________________________________ Nouveau mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/nouveau
