Bug#435691: xserver-xorg-video-ati: GATOS relicensed under MIT
On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 19:16 +0200, Brice Goglin wrote:
> forcemerge 435691 378594
> thank you
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> 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.
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> > 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.
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> > I would appreciate patching 6.6.3, but understand if you want to keep
> > this patch out of testing/unstable.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Brice
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Fair enough, Brice. I need to learn how to patch/build debian packages
anyway. This might give me the proper motivation to do so.
Best regards,
Nathan A. Stine
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