Re: New proposed DRM interface design

Ryan Underwood
2004-09-06T06:06:50Z

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On Sun, Sep 05, 2004 at 11:33:53AM -0400, Jon Smirl wrote:
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> Then how am I going to merge fbdev and DRM so that we don't have two
> drivers fighting over the same hardware? I was planning on adding
> pieces of the existing fbdev code to DRM in order to implement printk
> from the kernel. It seems silly for me to rewrite 10,000 lines of code
> just to make it BSD licensed when BSD isn't even going to use the
> code.

Is the code in question attributed to a single developer or to a horde?
I only have a 2.4 kernel handy, so I can't check.

If it's a single developer or just a few, you could ask them for
permission to put it under a less restrictive license. Petr Vandrovec
gave that permission for his components of the matroxfb code.

A lot of times the FB people don't really care about the license and
slap GPL on it just because that's the default thing to do for code
going into the Linux kernel. It doesn't necessarily mean that they
would only grant permission for the code to be used in GPL scenarios.

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Ryan Underwood, <nemesis@icequake.net>

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