Re: New proposed DRM interface design

Keith Whitwell
2004-09-04T08:25:52Z

Dave Airlie wrote:
>>>drm/linux is GPL licensed.
>>
>>This just isn't true. What on earth makes you think this? Read the license
>>before you make these sorts of comments, you dweeb. There shouldn't be any
>>GPL code in there at all.
>
>
> I think you mis-read Keith, he said about converting it in the future to
> that form. I'm as I said against the GPL'ing of any of this at this stage,
> we have all the info we need in X DDXes they are all usually X licensed so
> I don't for see issues with ripping the code from them..

OK, it's a proposal rather than a statement. Apologies in that case.

Let me be clear that I am unwilling to support changes to the DRM that break
it's usability on other operating systems on principle.

Maybe it's time to consider a fork of the DRM to allow a major experimentation
of the form Jon envisages to proceed without worrying about boring constraints
like keeping BSD working, backwards compatibility, etc. And the current DRM
architecture, which is pretty much stabilized, can continue to do those boring
tasks, and accumulate new drivers, until GNULonghorn is finished...

Keith