On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:16 AM, Daniel Stone dan...@fooishbar.org wrote:
Hi,
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 08:51:56AM +, Owain Ainsworth wrote:
On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote:
The idea of this wiki:
http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver
is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you have more info
or has a technical correction is ok (is on free editing mode) but is
only a space where to put the info with an universal scope.
Can you please clarify what the comments about GPLv3 are supposed to
mean on that page? Is it a reference to a non-public discussion?
If the current driver is licensed under the MIT/X11 license (as it would
appear that it is) changing it without adding substantial new work is
legally questionable at best. Furthermore, changing this license after
adding to it could be considered to be obnoxious and anti-community.
Anyone's free to tack on a more restrictive license to their work, which
would bring the entire collection under the same license, but yeah, it
would be incredibly obnoxious. X.Org's does not (currently) accept GPL
packages anyway, so we couldn't merge it back.
I heard vague rumblings about the FSF convincing Silicon Motion to
relicense it as GPLv3+ in private, with complete disregard for X.Org.
Good for the FSF: maybe they can do all the work on it then.
I believe the issue there was that FSF needed some small subset of
code dual-licensed to be able to incorporate it into GRUB2, which is
GPLv3 - GRUB2 is very close to being able to be the only boot firmware
on the actual hardware PLCC chip of the yeeloong, and of course would
load before Xorg.
I don't believe there is any intent to actually try to relicense X; as
you are probably aware FSF has in the past helped the X project with
licensing issues - http://www.fsf.org/news/thank-you-sgi - and knowing
the people involved I sincerely doubt there is any intention to do
anything that would splinter the Xorg codebase.
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