El Viernes, 25 de Febrero de 2005 01:34, Jason Lunz escribió:
> I have one of these new Dells at home running sarge/sid with an i910
> (915? 9xx anyway) chipset, and I use a Dell at work with i865. I also
> have access at work to another type of dell workstation with a third
> type of intel chipset, iirc. So I can test 2, maybe 3 chipsets, and am
> willing to help develop as well.
>
> I have a middling amount of debian packaging experience and plenty of
> build maintenance experience, so I think I can take this on. I'll get
> started by reading HACKING.txt and getting things building this weekend
> most likely.
>
> What's the word on this licensing issue? I'm uncertain from reading all
> the emails in this bug which codebases might or might not be tainted.
It should not be a problem since it is in freedesktop.org. The license
(taken from intel_pixel.c) is:
/**************************************************************************
*
* Copyright 2003 Tungsten Graphics, Inc., Cedar Park, Texas.
* All Rights Reserved.
*
* Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a
* copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
* "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
* without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
* distribute, sub license, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
* permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
* the following conditions:
*
* The above copyright notice and this permission notice (including the
* next paragraph) shall be included in all copies or substantial portions
* of the Software.
*
* THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS
* OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
* MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NON-INFRINGEMENT.
* IN NO EVENT SHALL TUNGSTEN GRAPHICS AND/OR ITS SUPPLIERS BE LIABLE FOR
* ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT,
* TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE
* SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
*
**************************************************************************/
I do not see any problem.
What Pedro asked for is to merge this driver with the current XFree86
Debian tree, ans test if it is possible to ship it.
Thank you for helping,
Ender.
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