Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269838AbUIDIZw (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:25:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269836AbUIDIZv (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:25:51 -0400 Received: from pengo.systems.pipex.net ([62.241.160.193]:16289 "EHLO pengo.systems.pipex.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269835AbUIDIZt (ORCPT ); Sat, 4 Sep 2004 04:25:49 -0400 Message-ID: <41397C08.1020507@tungstengraphics.com> Date: Sat, 04 Sep 2004 09:25:44 +0100 From: Keith Whitwell User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a3) Gecko/20040817 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dave Airlie Cc: Jon Smirl , Alex Deucher , dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design References: <9e4733910409032051717b28c0@mail.gmail.com> <9e47339104090323047b75dbb2@mail.gmail.com> <41397086.3020509@tungstengraphics.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1375 Lines: 30 Dave Airlie wrote: >>>drm/linux is GPL licensed. >> >>This just isn't true. What on earth makes you think this? Read the license >>before you make these sorts of comments, you dweeb. There shouldn't be any >>GPL code in there at all. > > > I think you mis-read Keith, he said about converting it in the future to > that form. I'm as I said against the GPL'ing of any of this at this stage, > we have all the info we need in X DDXes they are all usually X licensed so > I don't for see issues with ripping the code from them.. OK, it's a proposal rather than a statement. Apologies in that case. Let me be clear that I am unwilling to support changes to the DRM that break it's usability on other operating systems on principle. Maybe it's time to consider a fork of the DRM to allow a major experimentation of the form Jon envisages to proceed without worrying about boring constraints like keeping BSD working, backwards compatibility, etc. And the current DRM architecture, which is pretty much stabilized, can continue to do those boring tasks, and accumulate new drivers, until GNULonghorn is finished... Keith - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/