From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: adaplas@pol.net
Subject: nvidia fb licensing issue.
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 23:24:59 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050313042459.GF32494@redhat.com> (raw)
The nvidia framebuffer code added recently is marked as
MODULE_LICENSE(GPL), but some things seem a little odd to me..
1. The boilerplate at the top of drivers/video/nvidia/nv_dma.h,
drivers/video/nvidia/nv_local.h, and drivers/video/nvidia/nv_hw.c
doesn't seem to be a GPL-compatible license. It seems to be an nvidia
specific license with an advertising clause, and something that
adds restrictions on rights of U.S. Govt end users.
2. Some of these files clearly came from XFree86 judging from
the CVS idents in the source. Was this XFree86 code
dual-licensed by its original authors ? If so, it isn't clear.
Dave
next reply other threads:[~2005-03-13 4:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-13 4:24 Dave Jones [this message]
2005-03-13 5:59 ` nvidia fb licensing issue Andrew Morton
2005-03-13 8:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-14 2:03 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-14 6:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-15 10:32 ` Dave Airlie
2005-03-15 11:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
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