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From: Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, Denis Oliver Kropp <dok@directfb.org>,
	Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vmwarefb 0.5.2
Date: Wed, 15 May 2002 22:12:52 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020515201252.GA2146@skunk.convergence.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020515010242.GA1257@skunk.convergence.de> <20020515042113.GA22029@kroah.com> <20020515145728.E37@toy.ucw.cz>

Quoting Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz):
> Hi
> 
> > Is VMWare ok with releasing those files under the GPL?  If so, I suggest
> > you add that line to those files, and then everything should be fine.
> 
> Code seems to come from XFree, and that should allow him to relicence like
> that.
> 
> I have better question: "What is it good for"?

The driver at all?

I want to use DirectFB in VMware. I will also add console acceleration
to the framebuffer driver and possibly write an accelerated DirectFB driver.

-- 
Best regards,
  Denis Oliver Kropp

.------------------------------------------.
| DirectFB - Hardware accelerated graphics |
| http://www.directfb.org/                 |
"------------------------------------------"

                            Convergence GmbH

      reply	other threads:[~2002-05-15 20:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-05-15  1:02 [PATCH] vmwarefb 0.5.2 Denis Oliver Kropp
2002-05-15  4:21 ` Greg KH
2002-05-15 13:19   ` Denis Oliver Kropp
2002-05-15 14:57   ` Pavel Machek
2002-05-15 20:12     ` Denis Oliver Kropp [this message]

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