From: "Ville Syrjälä" <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
To: coypu@sdf.org
Cc: daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: drm core/helpers and MIT license
Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2019 14:34:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191115123432.GB1208@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191114200132.GA11077@SDF.ORG>
On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:01:32PM +0000, coypu@sdf.org wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> I don't think we can make any complaints about GPL being more widely
> used in the DRM code. It's nice to have the code at all, the MIT license
> is a bonus. Thanks for writing it and bearing with us.
>
> Would rewrites done purely for licensing reasons be accepted upstream?
Rewrite should be the last resort. I think a lot of the GPL only stuff
is quite recent so there's a good chance the author(s) are still around
to discuss relicensing.
--
Ville Syrjälä
Intel
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Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-14 20:01 drm core/helpers and MIT license coypu
2019-11-15 9:06 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-11-15 12:34 ` Ville Syrjälä [this message]
2019-11-15 14:33 ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-11-16 11:57 ` Emmanuel Vadot
2019-11-16 13:37 ` Noralf Trønnes
2019-11-18 15:22 ` Daniel Vetter
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2019-11-12 15:03 Daniel Vetter
2019-11-12 15:03 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-11-14 8:43 ` Simon Ser
2019-11-14 8:43 ` Simon Ser
[not found] ` <CAKMK7uH-8+tbKsAoiChsxELEc_77RVVxP2wapHWhqB+0Viifog-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2019-11-15 15:38 ` Alex Deucher
2019-11-15 15:38 ` Alex Deucher
2019-11-15 15:38 ` Alex Deucher
2019-11-16 12:12 ` Emmanuel Vadot
2019-11-16 12:12 ` Emmanuel Vadot
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