From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Daniel Stone <daniel@fooishbar.org>,
Sindhudweep Sarkar <sindhudweep.sarkar@gmail.com>,
David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>,
dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:00:32 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090320150032.31ef6a51@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090320145340.GA11347@kroah.com>
> > By the same logic, would you support including the proprietary NVIDIA
> > driver while we wait for Nouveau to catch up?
>
> The license of the NVIDIA driver does not allow that to even be a
> possibility.
I'm not convinced this is any different. If you accept the 3D changes you
step into a dangerous world of estoppel and since it has many
rightsholders also the wonderful world of contributory infringement. It
really really needs lawyers to look into it.
Now the other way to do it that might be more productive and simpler
would be to rip all the 3D crap out of that driver and just include the
minimum needed 2D bits for the open source X driver. Makes the code
smaller and cleaner, avoids an legal questions and lets people get on
with real work.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-20 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20090319035834.875839585@mini.kroah.org>
2009-03-19 4:08 ` Greg KH
2009-03-19 4:08 ` [patch 1/5] drm: Split out the mm declarations in a separate header. Add atomic operations Greg KH
2009-03-19 4:08 ` [patch 4/5] drm: Add unlocked IOCTL functionality from the drm repo Greg KH
2009-03-19 4:08 ` [patch 3/5] drm: Export hash table functionality Greg KH
2009-03-19 4:08 ` [patch 2/5] drm: Add a tracker for global objects Greg KH
2009-03-19 6:48 ` [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes Dave Airlie
2009-03-19 10:14 ` Thomas Hellström
2009-03-19 10:39 ` Alan Cox
2009-03-19 20:13 ` Greg KH
2009-03-19 20:11 ` Greg KH
2009-03-19 20:40 ` Thomas Hellström
2009-03-20 0:23 ` Greg KH
2009-03-20 14:17 ` Thomas Hellström
2009-03-19 10:43 ` Richard Purdie
2009-03-19 20:10 ` Greg KH
2009-03-19 16:03 ` Sindhudweep Sarkar
2009-03-19 16:27 ` Greg KH
2009-03-19 18:11 ` Sindhudweep Sarkar
2009-03-19 20:14 ` Greg KH
2009-03-19 18:53 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-19 19:02 ` Greg KH
2009-03-19 19:05 ` Matthew Garrett
2009-03-19 19:20 ` Greg KH
2009-03-20 6:08 ` Daniel Stone
2009-03-20 14:53 ` Greg KH
2009-03-20 15:00 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2009-03-20 15:50 ` Greg KH
2009-03-20 16:59 ` Thomas Hellström
2009-03-19 17:12 ` Richard Purdie
2009-03-19 20:15 ` Corbin Simpson
2009-03-19 21:14 ` Sindhudweep Sarkar
2009-03-21 2:39 ` Greg KH
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