Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266798AbUIEPdz (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:33:55 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266808AbUIEPdz (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:33:55 -0400 Received: from rproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.170.201]:40614 "EHLO mproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266798AbUIEPdx (ORCPT ); Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:33:53 -0400 Message-ID: <9e473391040905083326707923@mail.gmail.com> Date: Sun, 5 Sep 2004 11:33:53 -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: <1094393713.1264.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <20040904102914.B13149@infradead.org> <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> <9e47339104090508052850b649@mail.gmail.com> <1094393713.1264.7.camel@localhost.localdomain> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1310 Lines: 32 On Sun, 05 Sep 2004 15:15:25 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 16:05, Jon Smirl wrote: > > > 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. > > There is no reason to do that. The fb layer of Linux and BSD is very > different and both provide fb drawing functionality. Then how am I going to merge fbdev and DRM so that we don't have two drivers fighting over the same hardware? I was planning on adding pieces of the existing fbdev code to DRM in order to implement printk from the kernel. It seems silly for me to rewrite 10,000 lines of code just to make it BSD licensed when BSD isn't even going to use the code. What is wrong with marking each CVS commit with BSD/GPL license? Then having the BSD people pick off the relevant code. -- 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/