Bug#168794: synaptics support in XFree86

[Sven Luther <sven.luther@wanadoo.fr>]

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 09:15:17AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:35:11AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > While 2) is probably not a practical concern with respect to an input
> > driver, it's very important for things like the shared libraries in the
> > XFree86 distribution.
> 
> Hmm, what's the legal situation of having the driver loaded into the
> X Server at the same time as a propritary driver.  Not that _I_ would
> use one but I guess lots of people do these days..

As long as you don't distribute the result, there is no problem. The GPL
only bounds you when distibuting, not when using.

And since i doubt that it is even possible to distribute the running X
process which has loaded the driver module, there should be no problem.

Now, if you had a cluster or something, and process migration was a
possibility, things may be different :)))

Friendly,

Sven Luther