On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Daniel Stone wrote: >Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2003 20:30:58 +1000 >From: Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: Mike A. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; > protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="qjNfmADvan18RZcF" >Subject: Re: synaptics lockups (was Re: radeon lockups ...) > >On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 02:04:00AM -0400, Mike A. Harris wrote: >> It's GPL licensed unfortunately. Only MIT licensed code is >> accepted into XFree86, so this driver will never be included. >> That means once kernel 2.6 is standard, the majority of laptop >> users with synaptics touchpads will have to rely on their OS >> distribution to provide the GPL driver, or will have to compile >> it themselves. >> >> The only other option would be for someone to write a brand new >> driver for synaptics and license it as MIT, without looking at >> the GPL driver's source code. It's possible to do a clean room >> implementation, but I'm not sure if anyone would really want to >> bother when there's a working driver already. > >Well, couldn't the upstream author just relicense it?
That depends on wether or not the code is original code, or if it is a derivative of any other GPL sources. It's possible theoretically, but dependant on the history of the code, and also the author(s) wishes. -- Mike A. Harris _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
