Bug#435691: xserver-xorg-video-ati: GATOS relicensed under MIT
forcemerge 435691 378594
thank you
Nathan A. Stine wrote:
> The folks that develop GATOS have agreed to relicense their software
> under the MIT license[1]. This means that upstream will likely merge
> this code into mainline Xorg.
>
> A patch[2] already exists for 6.6.3. Another for 6.6.191[3], which
> should be adaptable to 6.6.192, the current version in experimental.
>
> I would appreciate patching 6.6.3, but understand if you want to keep
> this patch out of testing/unstable.
>
I've been following upstream discussion about this. It looks like the
patch is being looked at, ported to new boards, probably needs some
changes for randr-1.2, ... So a better version of the patch might get
merged upstream in the near future. We are probably going to wait a bit
instead of applying it ourself right now.
People lived with this patch outside of Debian for several years
already, they probably can wait a couple month again :) Once ati driver
6.7 is released upstream, we'll push it to unstable and might put the
randr-1.2 branch in experimental quickly. The gatos might be merged
upstream soon at this point.
Brice
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