Reply: Question on S3 on evergreen

[Huang, FrankR]

Xav, thanks for your reminder. Actually our law leam has already checked the license. As Dave said, the DRM kernel driver is all MIT-licensed and we will be free to use them. When the drm uses linux kernel function calls, we will use freebsd(none-GPL) equivalent to replace.
Dave, by the way, I want to ask you about some exceptions in DRM. you know in some files(i.e. drm_fb_helper.c), it includes MODULE_LICENSE("GPL and additional rights"). Does it mean it is GPL licensed? Is it free to use this file?

Thanks,
Frank


-----Original Message-----
From: Xavier Bestel [mailto:xavier.bestel at free.fr]
Sent: 2011-10-13 (星期四) 20:07
To: Dave Airlie
Cc: Huang, FrankR; dri-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
Subject: Re: Question on S3 on evergreen
 
On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 13:04 +0100, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 12:56 PM, Xavier Bestel <xavier.bestel at free.fr> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 17:54 +0800, Huang, FrankR wrote:
> >> [...] I have ported radeon_suspend_kms() and radeon_resume_kms()
> >> functions from linux to CE.
> >
> > I imagine you already have checked with your company's lawyers, but if I
> > understand correctly that means your drivers will be distributed under
> > the GPL ?
> 
> All the GPU driver code is licensed under MIT.

Oh, I thought "linux" meant "kernel", not "X11".

	Xav



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