Re: DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-05 Thread Cheshire Cat Fish
Just so. Unless otherwise specified, cat_fish's code would be considered a work for hire, and copyright would belong to the employer. :-) Thank you all for your concern in this matter, but it is clearly covered in my proposal that the work will remain open source and be re-submitted to XFree

Re: DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-04 Thread Ian Romanick
Cheshire Cat Fish wrote: Mesa support/conformance is a requirement. The resulting SMI drivers would remain open source, and part of the Xfree/DRI/Linux distribution. That is the plan at least. That's good news. :) There are way too many variables to be able to accurately answer that question

Re: DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-04 Thread Tim Roberts
On Thu, 04 Sep 2003 09:49:53 -0700, Cheshire Cat Fish wrote: Licensing issues are not a problem. SMI has approached me asking for this to be done, so I will have full access to all their source code to use to complete this task. I would caution that your conclusion (licensing is not a

Re: DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-04 Thread Craig Groeschel
TR I would caution that your conclusion (licensing is not a problem) does not necessarily follow from your premise (SMI asked for it). Just so. Unless otherwise specified, cat_fish's code would be considered a work for hire, and copyright would belong to the employer. = -- Craig

DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-03 Thread Cheshire Cat Fish
I am investigating supporting DRI and OpenGL for the Silicon Motion driver. I'm new to both of those, so some of these may be newbie sounding questions. 1) I have the OpenGL code from the Windows 2000 Silicon Motion driver. Can this code be mostly used as is? Or will the Linux code be entirely

Re: DRI and Silicon Motion

2003-09-03 Thread Ian Romanick
Cheshire Cat Fish wrote: I am investigating supporting DRI and OpenGL for the Silicon Motion driver. I'm new to both of those, so some of these may be newbie sounding questions. 1) I have the OpenGL code from the Windows 2000 Silicon Motion driver. Can this code be mostly used as is? Or