Hi On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 10:01 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:50:37PM -0500, Ken Phillis Jr wrote: >> I believe this driver is extremely useful, and I see possible issues with >> the fact that the driver is GPL Only. This driver is critical for devices >> that lack a proper DRM driver, and locking it into GPL Only could lead to >> issues with porting the system over to platforms like FreeBSD, >> DragonFlyBSD, etc. Is there any chance the code placed in the >> "drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm" folder be placed under a more permissive >> license setup. I would suggest using MIT[1], BSD 2-Clause[2], or BSD >> 3-clause[3]. Also as a quick note it is possible to enable this under a >> dual-license setup with GPLv2/BSD-3 Clause. An example a dual licensed >> driver is the Intel iwlwifi driver ( see: >> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-8000.c ) > > tbh, most if not all arm drivers are gpl only, and due to code sharing and > refactoring I'd say a lot of that has leaked all over drm. IANAL and all > that, but personally I believe that the entire idea of drm being MIT is > walking on ever thinner ice. And personally I'm not going to extend effort > to slow this down or prevent it outright, since I think all that code > sharing with arm folks is extremely beneficial for everyone. At least here > on Linux. > -Daniel On top of that: Feel free to copy SimpleDRM in any way possible. Consider my original implementation public domain. Thanks David _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
