drm core/helpers and MIT license

[Emmanuel Vadot]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2019 15:33:46 +0100
Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org> wrote:

> 
> 
> Den 15.11.2019 13.34, skrev Ville Syrjälä:
> > 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.
> > 
> 
> If someone sends patches to MIT license the work I've done, I'll be
> happy to ack it. It's only recently that I've been aware of the fact
> that MIT licensed was a thing in the kernel. I was under the impression
> that all new code should be GPL and MIT were for code imported from
> elsewhere. I would love to see my work being used on the BSD's.

 And I would love to be able to use your work on FreeBSD :)
 I don't really know the rules but shouldn't you send a patch to
relicence ?
 Right now for me drm_client (and others) being GPL is a problem for my
update of DRM in FreeBSD so I'm not using it (which is bad and will
probably cause problems).

> Noralf.
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