From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license. Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 18:32:38 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040130173238.GA8599@iliana> References: <20040129115838.A70069@xfree86.org> <1075423804.12536.28.camel@gaston> <16410.33783.236964.200047@xf11.fra.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx2-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.12] helo=sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AmcW4-0007ha-3G for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:33:16 -0800 Received: from smtp4.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.27] helo=mwinf0401.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AmcW3-00074E-4N for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 09:33:15 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16410.33783.236964.200047@xf11.fra.suse.de> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: forum@xfree86.org Cc: devel@XFree86.Org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 05:19:03PM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: > Benjamin Herrenschmidt writes: > > > Losing the ability of porting code straight from these to the fbdev > > drivers will basically kill all my efforts to turn the kernel radeonfb > > into a decent driver as I need to be able to re-use the code ATI puts > > in the XFree version. I suppose the same will happen to linux rivafb. > > Relating to that: exchanging code between XFree86 and kernel has been a > one-way road so far. The GPL the kernel is under doesn't allow us to > port back improvements that have been made to the kernel to our drivers > Even though this isn't covered by the GPL the author of the driver > or the changes could still give the permission to do so. > > I whish there was a better exchange between kernel fbdev developers > and driver developers here. Maybe a decision on both parts on this would be ok ? XFree86 could make sure the licence of the driver code would not conflict with the GPL, keeping the old one for example, and the fbdev driver authors would dual-licence the code, both GPL and the old xfree86 licence would do just fine. Benjamin, what do you think about this ? BTW, CCing this to the linux-fbdev mailing list. Friendly, Sven Luther ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn