Den 16.11.2019 12.57, skrev Emmanuel Vadot: > 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 ? I don't know the rules either, but I don't think I have to be the author of the relicensing patch, I just have to put my stamp on it. Myself I haven't got the time to do the work, it's not just putting out a patch, everyone having made changes to the affected files would also have to be ok with the new license. Noralf. > 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 > _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
