On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 07:05:58PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 16:01, Daniel Stone wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 02:33:38PM +0200, Christian Guggenberger wrote:
> > > Attached is a patch stolen from xfree86's bugzilla (#923).
> > > I've rediffed it, to fit into 4.3.0-7. Builds fine on sparc, and glx
> > > apps are fine with indirect mesa rendering again.
> > > (to get dri working with sunffb - fails initialization due to a missing
> > > symbol - is another story; I will open a new bug for it sometime, after
> > > testing a little fix discussed with DaveM)
> > >
> > > The corresponding upstream changeset can be found at:
> > > http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/lib/GL/glx/glxext.c.diff?r1=1.21&r2=1.22
> > >
> > > I don't see any problematic license changes in it.
> >
> > Could you please check the log message of this commit? David Dawes has
> > now taken to asserting licenses in CVS commit messages, and making
> > people 'assume' that anything from him is licensed under the new, bad,
> > license.
> >
> > Moral of the story: it's not worth taking stuff from XFree86
> > unless it's contributed by someone external.
>
> Andreas Schwab already posted the commmit changelog, thanks Andreas!
>
> Well, IMHO the patch (at least most of it) is contributed by someone
> external, namely Ferris McCormick, so I assume there are no license
> problems to expect.
Even if this particular patch doesn't have a license problem, your
assumption is unfounded:
Log message:
64. Initial support for building 64-bit libraries on Solaris/SPARC
(Mark Kandianis).
--
These changes are Copyright (c) 2004 The XFree86 Project, Inc, Author: Mark
Kandianis.
Rights as per version 1.1 of the XFree86 License
(http://www.xfree86.org/legal/licenses.html).
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