On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 3:01 PM, Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch> wrote:
> 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 > > -- > Daniel Vetter > Software Engineer, Intel Corporation > http://blog.ffwll.ch > I generally do not have a issue with GPLv2 license. I believe that most developers are under the impression that for a driver (and code) to get mainlined into the Linux kernel requires the code to be placed under GPLv2 only. This is just a generalized check to make sure that there is no problem placing this code under a more permissive license. On Thu, Aug 4, 2016 at 3:07 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > On top of that: Feel free to copy SimpleDRM in any way possible. > Consider my original implementation public domain. > > Thanks > David > Thank you for the quick response, and I'll make a note of this. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/attachments/20160804/0557a7c0/attachment.html>
