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Bug#204688: Support synaptics touchpad under linux 2.6.0



On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:40:56AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:01:17PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > There is an evdev driver in 4.3.0-0pre1v1, which has just hit experimental
> > today, and that Synaptics driver is scheduled for pre1v2.
> 
> You didn't tell me the driver was under the GPL.
> 
> This would be the first GPLed code we've introduced into the XFree86
> codebase.

Into the codebase, yes. All our mods are, however, GPLed.

> I am not sure that is wise.  It might be better to have this thing
> packaged separately since there is no way it will ever end up upstream.

Your call.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                              <daniel@fooishbar.org>
http://www.debian.org - http://www.kde.org - http://www.freedesktop.org
"Configurability is always the best choice when it's pretty simple to implement"
  -- Havoc Pennington, gnome-list

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