From: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
To: Ken Phillis Jr <kphillisjr@gmail.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver
Date: Thu, 4 Aug 2016 22:01:56 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160804200156.GW6232@phenom.ffwll.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CACiKS=TWCsyUrGOVZxkPDgwJ1QMYx8CgA-Ev_3vxXx9qiqBF5g@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:50:37PM -0500, Ken Phillis Jr wrote:
> I believe this driver is extremely useful, and I see possible issues with
> the fact that the driver is GPL Only. This driver is critical for devices
> that lack a proper DRM driver, and locking it into GPL Only could lead to
> issues with porting the system over to platforms like FreeBSD,
> DragonFlyBSD, etc. Is there any chance the code placed in the
> "drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm" folder be placed under a more permissive
> license setup. I would suggest using MIT[1], BSD 2-Clause[2], or BSD
> 3-clause[3]. Also as a quick note it is possible to enable this under a
> dual-license setup with GPLv2/BSD-3 Clause. An example a dual licensed
> driver is the Intel iwlwifi driver ( see:
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-8000.c )
tbh, most if not all arm drivers are gpl only, and due to code sharing and
refactoring I'd say a lot of that has leaked all over drm. IANAL and all
that, but personally I believe that the entire idea of drm being MIT is
walking on ever thinner ice. And personally I'm not going to extend effort
to slow this down or prevent it outright, since I think all that code
sharing with arm folks is extremely beneficial for everyone. At least here
on Linux.
-Daniel
>
>
> [1]https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
> [2]https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
> [3]https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-08-04 19:50 [PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver Ken Phillis Jr
2016-08-04 20:01 ` Daniel Vetter [this message]
2016-08-04 20:07 ` David Herrmann
2016-08-04 23:34 ` Ken Phillis Jr
2016-08-05 8:28 ` Jani Nikula
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2016-08-04 14:03 Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:03 ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 14:15 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 14:15 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 15:08 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 15:34 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 15:44 ` David Herrmann
2016-08-04 15:44 ` David Herrmann
2016-08-04 15:59 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-04 17:10 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 18:08 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-08-04 18:08 ` One Thousand Gnomes
2016-08-04 16:58 ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 16:58 ` Noralf Trønnes
2016-08-04 18:12 ` Luc Verhaegen
2016-08-05 7:18 ` Hans de Goede
2016-08-04 14:36 ` Daniel Vetter
2016-08-04 17:30 ` Noralf Trønnes
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