From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ryan Underwood Subject: Re: Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license. Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 16:07:16 -0600 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <20040131220716.GA12948@dbz.icequake.net> References: <20040130222902.GA11885@iliana> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE" 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 1An3Gr-0007Ls-Jq for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:07:21 -0800 Received: from 216-229-91-229-empty.fidnet.com ([216.229.91.229] helo=mail.icequake.net ident=postfix) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1An3Gr-0005LF-4i for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 14:07:21 -0800 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Unsubscribe: , List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: To: devel@xfree86.org Cc: forum@xfree86.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 09:10:22AM +0000, Andrew C Aitchison wrote: >=20 > For several years the mga fb kernel driver has supported dual head and/or > dvi on cards which aren't supported by the XFree86 driver (unless you > use the mga_hal). I've wanted to use kernel code to add this support to= =20 > XFree86, but been put off by the licence problem. >=20 > As I remember it, the pertinent register information here was reverse=20 > engineered, so it is at least arguable that I'd be copying fbdev > intellectual property here if I'd extracted and reused it. > Perhaps I was wrong, but my understanding from my days in a software > house taught me that I'd be breaking copyright not just by lifting > lines of code, but also by reading the code and copying intellectual > property, including register information. Petr Vandrovec, the author of the vast majority of matroxfb code, has repeatedly granted requests to re-use the code under X11 license. Did you even ask him? --=20 Ryan Underwood, --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: Digital signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAHCcUIonHnh+67jkRAl0vAKCjb1n6RKF68Pf4zXYQXJgH6ZaeMgCeOnxV A2z22rqxDHzQW/T0LGX7tYw= =Xy1N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE-- ------------------------------------------------------- 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