Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266758AbUIEPFe (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:05:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266786AbUIEPFd (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:05:33 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.197]:23851 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266758AbUIEPF3 (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:05:29 -0400 Message-ID: <9e47339104090508052850b649@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:05:28 -0400 From: Jon Smirl Reply-To: Jon Smirl To: Alan Cox Subject: Re: New proposed DRM interface design Cc: Keith Whitwell , Dave Jones , Christoph Hellwig , Dave Airlie , Jon Smirl , DRI Devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List , mharris@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <1094386050.1081.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> <4139A9F4.4040702@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904115442.GD2785@redhat.com> <4139B03A.6040706@tungstengraphics.com> <20040904122057.GC26419@redhat.com> <4139C8A3.6010603@tungstengraphics.com> <9e47339104090408362a356799@mail.gmail.com> <4139FEB4.3080303@tungstengraphics.com> <9e473391040904110354ba2593@mail.gmail.com> <1094386050.1081.33.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 968 Lines: 24 On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 13:07:37 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sad, 2004-09-04 at 19:03, Jon Smirl wrote: > > This does add some work to the BSD developers but it would make all of > > the new code that doesn't copy preexisting GPL code fair game. I have > > no problem marking any new code I write as being BSD licensed, I just > > don't want to rewrite 80,000 lines of fbdev code. > > If DRI stays the way it is currently licensed no problems arise anyway > (beyond proprietary people reusing DRI code, which given the license is > presumably the intent) > If I copy GPL pieces of fbdev in to the DRM drivers it will pollute the BSD license and turn it into GPL. -- Jon Smirl jonsmirl@gmail.com - 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/