Hi! a little update about mach64.h copyright. After write fsf's licencing team, they are sending question to ATI, in hope they get a response.
our mach64.h bug page: http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00212 the FSF email: Il giorno gio, 20/11/2008 alle 17.34 -0500, Donald R Robertson III via RT ha scritto: > Hello again, > > I'm going to send off a letter to them tomorrow on our letterhead. > Hopefully we will hear back. In the mean time, it would probably be best > to start considering whether and how the sample code can be removed from > the project. If I don't hear back from ATI, or what I hear back is that > the code isn't or won't be licensed freely, then the code should be > probably be removed in order to ensure both that gNewSense is completely > free and that it is not violating whatever licensing ATI is using. > Thanks so much for your effort throughout this, and good luck. > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Tue Nov 18 17:36:27 2008]: > > > > hello, > > no answes yet. In truth, i have lose hope about it. > > thanks if you try to contact them, probably you have much power than > > me :) > > > > regards, > > marco > > > > Il giorno mar, 18/11/2008 alle 17.16 -0500, Donald R Robertson III via > > RT ha scritto: > > > Hello again, > > > > > > Just wanted to check-in on this issue. Have you heard back from ATI? If > > > not, we might try to contact them, to see what response we can get. > > > Thanks for taking your time. > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Sat Nov 08 23:55:26 2008]: > > > > > > > > hello, > > > > > > > > unfortunately i don't find out more useful information. > > > > The author of this code have no idea about that, this is his verbatim > > > > answer: > > > > >> That comment is probably 10 years old, if > > > > >> indeed it's from me, I have no idea what file it's from. We got > > > > some > > > > >> sample code from ATI, no idea about the license, they knew we were > > > > >> working on linux drivers though and were trying to help us. > > > > >> > > > > >> mt > > > > >> > > > > > > > > looking in the kernel archive > > > > ( http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/ ) i see `mach64.h` > > > > appears from v. 2.4.8 . Before this date, it was probably knew with > > > > another name (located in drivers/video/aty/ I suppose, but not check > > > > yet) > > > > > > > > thanks, > > > > marco > > > > > > > > Il giorno gio, 30/10/2008 alle 16.47 -0400, Donald R Robertson III via > > > > RT ha scritto: > > > > > Hello, > > > > > > > > > > It is unlikely that the license for the website applies to the code > > > > > samples. Right now, it looks like you might have code that came from > > > > > ATI, but we're unsure of what the license is. Is there any more > > > > > information that you can provide? Can the author at least provide > > > > more > > > > > information on where he got the sample code from? > > > > > > > > > > It would also be useful to think about how important this file > > > > really > > > > > is. It might be simpler to do without the code then go through the > > > > > effort of resolving licensing issues with ATI. > > > > > > > > > > Please keep us posted on this. Thanks so much for your time. > > > > > > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Wed Oct 22 09:07:38 2008]: > > > > > > > > > > > > Hi! > > > > > > I'm Marco. > > > > > > > > > > > > Checking the Linux Kernel I found a shady copyright notice from > > > > the > > > > > > mach64.h file ( it is located in the kernel tree > > > > > > at /include/video/mach64.h ) > > > > > > > > > > > > Formely it is released under GPL version 2 (or later) but, another > > > > note > > > > > > said: > > > > > > > > > > > > /* > > > > > > * most of the rest of this file comes from ATI sample code > > > > > > */ > > > > > > > > > > > > The only "ATI" sample code" i've discover is from the ATI website, > > > > but > > > > > > the "term and Condition" for that code seems GPL incompatible. > > > > > > (reference at > > > > > > http://www.amd.com/us-en/Copyright/0,,1435_1439,00.html > > > > ) > > > > > > An extract: > > > > > > > This Site is only for your personal use. 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