On Sat, 04 Sep 2004 18:43:16 +0100, Keith Whitwell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You may think that X on GL (gnuLonghorn) is a crazy idea. But > > comptetive pressures from the Mac and Longhhorn will force us into > > doing it so or later. I'd rather do it sooner. > > > > Not a crazy idea at all, plus I like the name. But a fork could help relieve > the tension between trying to maintain a stable DRM and the sorts of stuff > that you need to do to move to the next level. And I recognize that I get > grumpy when it sounds like existing functionality is threatened by your desire > to push off in a certain technical direction. If gnuLonghorn/DRM makes a > friendly/development fork off the existing DRM, things might go a little smoother.
I'm sure we'll get a cease and desist letter from Microsoft if we call it gnuLonghorn. Here's a completely different tack on the same problem. As I understand things it would be better for DRM if DRM merged into the Linux kernel tree/development process. Given that this is true for Linux it is probably true for BSD too. Developers hold the copyrights on their patches. We could mark each patch going into Linux DRM as being BSD or GPL licensed. For example I could add a bunch of existing fbdev code in a patch marked GPL. I could then add the code for integrating it and making it work and mark it as BSD. This scheme lets the BSD people extract driver changes out of the Linux code base without licensing problems. The BSD marked patches don't bother Linux since the BSD license is upwardly compatible to GPL. This does add some work to the BSD developers but it would make all of the new code that doesn't copy preexisting GPL code fair game. I have no problem marking any new code I write as being BSD licensed, I just don't want to rewrite 80,000 lines of fbdev code. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by BEA Weblogic Workshop FREE Java Enterprise J2EE developer tools! Get your free copy of BEA WebLogic Workshop 8.1 today. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=5047&alloc_id=10808&op=click -- _______________________________________________ Dri-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dri-devel
