On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:33:46 +0100 Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Den 15.11.2019 13.34, skrev Ville Syrjälä: > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:01:32PM +0000, coypu@xxxxxxx wrote: > >> Hi Daniel, > >> > >> I don't think we can make any complaints about GPL being more widely > >> used in the DRM code. It's nice to have the code at all, the MIT license > >> is a bonus. Thanks for writing it and bearing with us. > >> > >> Would rewrites done purely for licensing reasons be accepted upstream? > > > > Rewrite should be the last resort. I think a lot of the GPL only stuff > > is quite recent so there's a good chance the author(s) are still around > > to discuss relicensing. > > > > If someone sends patches to MIT license the work I've done, I'll be > happy to ack it. It's only recently that I've been aware of the fact > that MIT licensed was a thing in the kernel. I was under the impression > that all new code should be GPL and MIT were for code imported from > elsewhere. I would love to see my work being used on the BSD's. And I would love to be able to use your work on FreeBSD :) I don't really know the rules but shouldn't you send a patch to relicence ? Right now for me drm_client (and others) being GPL is a problem for my update of DRM in FreeBSD so I'm not using it (which is bad and will probably cause problems). > Noralf. > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- Emmanuel Vadot <manu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
