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title="NEW - gma500 driver: License Confusion?"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=92582">92582</a>
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<th>Summary</th>
<td>gma500 driver: License Confusion?
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<th>Product</th>
<td>DRI
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<th>Version</th>
<td>DRI git
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<th>Hardware</th>
<td>All
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<th>OS</th>
<td>Linux (All)
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<th>Status</th>
<td>NEW
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<th>Severity</th>
<td>enhancement
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<th>Priority</th>
<td>medium
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<th>Component</th>
<td>DRM/Intel
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<th>Assignee</th>
<td>intel-gfx-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<th>Reporter</th>
<td>kphillisjr@gmail.com
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<th>QA Contact</th>
<td>intel-gfx-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<td>intel-gfx-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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<pre>I was looking over the various DRM Drivers and noticed that this driver
(GMA500) is a max of GPLv2 only and GPL With additional rights. This makes
things a little bit confusing when porting drivers over to other platforms.
Example file with a more liberal License:
<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/tc35876x-dsi-lvds.c">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/tc35876x-dsi-lvds.c</a>
Example File that is strictly GPLv2 licensed:
<a href="http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/backlight.c">http://cgit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel/tree/drivers/gpu/drm/gma500/backlight.c</a>
I'm wondering if the licensing of this code could be made more liberal and
documentation be provided on why this should be done... The main reason is to
avoid re-inventing the wheel when getting DRM kernel modules over to other
platforms where it is harder to include GPLv2 code in drivers.
Also as a quick note, there is several drivers to compare with that make it
easier to see that it is a strongly desired trait for desktop drivers. These
are the AMDGPU, AMDKFD, AST, i810, i915, Nouveu, R128, Radeon, TDFX, VIA, VGEM,
etc.</pre>
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