From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sven Luther Subject: Re: Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license. Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 23:29:02 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040130222902.GA11885@iliana> References: <20040129115838.A70069@xfree86.org> <1075423804.12536.28.camel@gaston> <16410.33783.236964.200047@xf11.fra.suse.de> <20040130173238.GA8599@iliana> <16410.44981.237411.858354@xf11.fra.suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from sc8-sf-mx1-b.sourceforge.net ([10.3.1.11] helo=sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Amh8T-0008Oa-Pk for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:29:13 -0800 Received: from smtp1.wanadoo.fr ([193.252.22.30] helo=mwinf0101.wanadoo.fr) by sc8-sf-mx1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Amh8R-0005Le-8d for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Fri, 30 Jan 2004 14:29:11 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16410.44981.237411.858354@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: Egbert Eich Cc: forum@XFree86.Org, devel@XFree86.Org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 08:25:40PM +0100, Egbert Eich wrote: > Sven Luther writes: > > > > 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. > > > > Yes, a personal agreement between driver developers would also work. > However they tend to change and other people will make contributions > who all would have to agree also. > I don't know if a general dual license agreement in the kernel > file header would be possible. Also it could get removed once > the author changes. Just like the license in the XFree86 driver > could be amended. I guess already some drivers have such a dual licencing. > Doing this now for existing fbdev driver would involve to ask > anyone who has contributed little more than a typo fix. Yeah, that would be rather problematic, but anyway, most of the things move from the XFree86 code to fbdev code, and most often, it is not code that is copied, but the register information and such. It is always easier to get specs if you are working for XFree86 than if you plan to do some kernel driver work. 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