From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, adaplas@pol.net
Subject: Re: nvidia fb licensing issue.
Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:59:36 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050312215936.513039a6.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050313042459.GF32494@redhat.com>
Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> The nvidia framebuffer code added recently is marked as
> MODULE_LICENSE(GPL), but some things seem a little odd to me..
>
> 1. The boilerplate at the top of drivers/video/nvidia/nv_dma.h,
> drivers/video/nvidia/nv_local.h, and drivers/video/nvidia/nv_hw.c
> doesn't seem to be a GPL-compatible license. It seems to be an nvidia
> specific license with an advertising clause, and something that
> adds restrictions on rights of U.S. Govt end users.
>
> 2. Some of these files clearly came from XFree86 judging from
> the CVS idents in the source. Was this XFree86 code
> dual-licensed by its original authors ? If so, it isn't clear.
Does
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.11/2.6.11-mm3/broken-out/fbdev-nvidia-licensing-clarification.patch
clear things up?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-13 6:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-13 4:24 Dave Jones
2005-03-13 5:59 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2005-03-13 8:18 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-14 2:03 ` Jon Smirl
2005-03-14 6:53 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-03-15 10:32 ` Dave Airlie
2005-03-15 11:06 ` Arjan van de Ven
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