On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:34 PM Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. The trouble is this stuff is mostly coming from refactorings of gpl-only drivers, and quick chat with Dave looks like some of that code comes from gpl-only fbdev drivers. Doing the relicensing properly will be some work I think. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
