Re: New licence and driver SDK ?

Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.xfree86.forum
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
nicolas wrote:
> This point is only there to avoid that the code did not return to the 
> communauty. Also, fork is avoided. Give back the code is the price to pay to 
> reused  GPL code. That's how this system want to work. 

Forks have little to do with licenses.  Using the GPL did not stop the
emacs/xemacs fork, nor did not using GPL cause the FreeBSD/NetBSD fork
or the long ago X Consortium/XFree86 fork.  In all those cases code has
freely flowed back and forth between the sibling projects.

-- 
	-Alan Coopersmith-          [email protected]
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. -- Operating Platforms Group
	 Solaris x86 & Interface Technology: X Window System
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