On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 13:18 +0200, Michel Dänzer wrote: > That said, e.g., what will happen with drivers which can't or don't want > to be in the xserver tree? Like GPL input drivers, or the Gallium Xorg > state tracker, which really wants to live in the Gallium tree at least > for the time being. It seems like they would become second class > citizens in the best case.
Strictly, mere aggregation of content in the tarball does not constitute a license contamination issue. If it did, glibc would be entirely GPLv2, not just the binaries it happens to build; the whole of X would have been subject to SGI FreeB 1.1; etc. As an X.Org policy question, well, we're already shipping at least one sometimes-GPL input driver, it's called keyboard. I'd still want it to be possible to build out-of-tree drivers. They'll have all the version skew problems that the current situation has, of course, but there's no reason to stop installing an SDK entirely. - ajax
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