[PATCH 0/2] drm: add SimpleDRM driver

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, Aug 04, 2016 at 02:50:37PM -0500, Ken Phillis Jr wrote:
> I believe this driver is extremely useful, and I see possible issues with
> the fact that the driver is GPL Only. This driver is critical for devices
> that lack a proper DRM driver, and locking it into GPL Only could lead to
> issues with porting the system over to platforms like FreeBSD,
> DragonFlyBSD, etc.  Is there any chance the code placed in the
> "drivers/gpu/drm/simpledrm" folder be placed under a more permissive
> license setup. I would suggest using MIT[1], BSD 2-Clause[2], or BSD
> 3-clause[3]. Also as a quick note it is possible to enable this under a
> dual-license setup with GPLv2/BSD-3 Clause. An example a dual licensed
> driver is the Intel iwlwifi driver ( see:
> drivers/net/wireless/intel/iwlwifi/iwl-8000.c )

tbh, most if not all arm drivers are gpl only, and due to code sharing and
refactoring I'd say a lot of that has leaked all over drm. IANAL and all
that, but personally I believe that the entire idea of drm being MIT is
walking on ever thinner ice. And personally I'm not going to extend effort
to slow this down or prevent it outright, since I think all that code
sharing with arm folks is extremely beneficial for everyone. At least here
on Linux.
-Daniel

> 
> 
> [1]https://opensource.org/licenses/mit-license.html
> [2]https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause
> [3]https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-3-Clause

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