Re: New proposed DRM interface design

Alan Cox
2004-09-05T15:18:52Z

On Sul, 2004-09-05 at 16:05, Jon Smirl wrote:
> > If DRI stays the way it is currently licensed no problems arise anyway
> > (beyond proprietary people reusing DRI code, which given the license is
> > presumably the intent)
> >
> If I copy GPL pieces of fbdev in to the DRM drivers it will pollute
> the BSD license and turn it into GPL.

There is no reason to do that. The fb layer of Linux and BSD is very
different and both provide fb drawing functionality.