Re: help new driver
On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 07:30:49PM -0500, Mike A. Harris wrote: > On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, dave wrote: > > >Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:24:02 +1300 > >From: dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > >Subject: help new driver > > > >I am writing a driver and need to now what copyright GPL stuff > >I need to put in my source files What driver are you speaking about ? > The existing drivers are under an MIT/X11 style license, which > allows their source code to be shared with pretty much anything, > including GPL licensed code. Making your driver MIT/X11 > licensed, or dual licensing it as MIT/X11 and GPL, would allows > other drivers to be able to benefit from sharing code with your > driver as well. Of course it is totally up to you what license > you would prefer to use. Yeah, i would recomend a MIT/X11 & GPL dual licence, that would be nice, so the code could later be shared by the linux kernel, among others. Friendly, Sven Luther ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: help new driver
On Thu, 26 Feb 2004, dave wrote: >Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 12:24:02 +1300 >From: dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" >Subject: help new driver > >I am writing a driver and need to now what copyright GPL stuff >I need to put in my source files The existing drivers are under an MIT/X11 style license, which allows their source code to be shared with pretty much anything, including GPL licensed code. Making your driver MIT/X11 licensed, or dual licensing it as MIT/X11 and GPL, would allows other drivers to be able to benefit from sharing code with your driver as well. Of course it is totally up to you what license you would prefer to use. The FSF and/or GNU websites contain information on what you should place in your sources in order to properly legally indicate they are GPL licensed should you decide to not use the traditional MIT/X11 license which is more shareable. Hope this helps. -- Mike A. Harris ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
Re: help new driver
--- dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am writing a driver and need to now what copyright GPL stuff > I need to put in my source files > most XFree86 device drivers has a X11/BSD style license. take a look at the other drivers in xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers However, how you want to license your driver is up to you. Alex __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard - Read only the mail you want. http://antispam.yahoo.com/tools ___ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel