Re: [forum] Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.

Thomas Winischhofer <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.fbdev.devel,gmane.comp.xfree86.devel,gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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

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