drm core/helpers and MIT license

Ville Syrjälä ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com
Fri Nov 15 12:34:32 UTC 2019


On Thu, Nov 14, 2019 at 08:01:32PM +0000, coypu at sdf.org wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
> 
> I don't think we can make any complaints about GPL being more widely
> used in the DRM code. It's nice to have the code at all, the MIT license
> is a bonus. Thanks for writing it and bearing with us.
> 
> Would rewrites done purely for licensing reasons be accepted upstream?

Rewrite should be the last resort. I think a lot of the GPL only stuff
is quite recent so there's a good chance the author(s) are still around
to discuss relicensing.

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Ville Syrjälä
Intel


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