On Mon, Mar 29, 2004 at 10:28:30AM +1000, Adam Conrad wrote: > As a follow-up to my patch posting for VIA support, here's a quick > discussion on licensing from IRC: > > infinity = 'Adam Conrad' > overfiend = 'Branden Robinson' > > <infinity> No comment on the VIA driver patch? > <overfiend> haven't done anything with it yet, sorry > <infinity> I didn't write about licensing, but I just duoble-checked, > and everything is clean. > <infinity> CVS rev 1.9 of the Imakefile claims the changes between 1.8 > and 1.9 are under the 1.1 license. Ironically, those changes break the > compile and I rolled back to version 1.8 anyway. > <infinity> All the other files in via/* are under the old license (and > won't be relicensed without consent from VIA/S3), and everything outside > of via/ was changed by hand by me, so no changes were pulled from > upstream. > <overfiend> okay. You don't want to post to -x about this? > <infinity> I'll just post this IRC log. :) > <overfiend> okay :) In light of recent messages by David Dawes to the XFree86 devel list[1][2][3], I'm not sure it is safe to include anything from XFree86 CVS after 2003-02-11, even in the via driver. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05906.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05959.html [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05939.html -- G. Branden Robinson | A fundamentalist is someone who Debian GNU/Linux | hates sin more than he loves branden@debian.org | virtue. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- John H. Schaar
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