Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.
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From: Thomas Winischhofer <hidden>
Date: 2004-01-31 14:15:49
Egbert Eich wrote:
Sven Luther writes: > > Maybe a decision on both parts on this would be ok ? XFree86 could make > sure the licence of the driver code would not conflict with the GPL, > keeping the old one for example, and the fbdev driver authors would > dual-licence the code, both GPL and the old xfree86 licence would do > just fine. Benjamin, what do you think about this ? > > BTW, CCing this to the linux-fbdev mailing list. > Yes, a personal agreement between driver developers would also work. However they tend to change and other people will make contributions who all would have to agree also. I don't know if a general dual license agreement in the kernel file header would be possible.
Yes, it is. See the current SiS driver source files. Thomas -- Thomas Winischhofer Vienna/Austria thomas AT winischhofer DOT net http://www.winischhofer.net/ twini AT xfree86 DOT org ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn