From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Winischhofer Subject: Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license. Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:27:00 +0100 Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: <401B9F14.9030000@xfree86.org> 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 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 1AmvuX-0007yH-LF for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:15:49 -0800 Received: from [213.229.38.18] (helo=home.winischhofer.net) by sc8-sf-mx2.sourceforge.net with smtp (Exim 4.30) id 1AmvuW-00040s-P5 for linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net; Sat, 31 Jan 2004 06:15:49 -0800 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"; format="flowed" To: devel@XFree86.Org Cc: forum@XFree86.Org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net 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. Yes, it is. See the current SiS driver source files. Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net http://www.winischhofer.net/ twini AT xfree86 DOT org ------------------------------------------------------- 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