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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: "Thomas Hellström" <thomas@shipmail.org>,
	DRI <dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>,
	"Linux Kernel list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DRM drivers with closed source user-space: WAS  [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for upstream
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 15:52:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090720155248.6a4442be@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248098773.15751.8908.camel@twins>

>       * fully functional GPL user-space driver.
> 
> How can you argue that something as tailor made as a DRM interface can
> be used without it being a derived work?

Our prior policy has been to reject such stuff (both the Intel wireless
driver regulatory daemon and the GMX driver)


  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20 14:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-20 13:38 DRM drivers with closed source user-space: WAS [Patch 0/3] Resubmit VIA Chrome9 DRM via_chrome9 for upstream Thomas Hellström
2009-07-20 13:58 ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-20 15:02   ` Thomas Hellström
2009-07-20 15:16     ` Alan Cox
2009-07-20 15:52       ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-20 15:57         ` Christoph Hellwig
2009-07-20 16:02           ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-20 16:37           ` Alan Cox
2009-07-20 23:28         ` Alan Cox
2009-07-20 23:33           ` Matthew Garrett
2009-07-20 19:13     ` Stephane Marchesin
2009-07-20 20:19       ` Thomas Hellström
2009-07-20 20:43         ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-20 21:40         ` Stephane Marchesin
2009-07-20 22:31           ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-20 14:06 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-07-20 14:52   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-07-20 15:07   ` Thomas Hellström
2009-07-20 19:51   ` Dave Airlie
2009-07-20 14:09 ` Andrey Panin
2009-07-20 19:03   ` Krzysztof Halasa

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