drm core/helpers and MIT license

[Daniel Vetter]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2019 at 1:34 PM Ville Syrjälä
<ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
>
> 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.

The trouble is this stuff is mostly coming from refactorings of
gpl-only drivers, and quick chat with Dave looks like some of that
code comes from gpl-only fbdev drivers. Doing the relicensing properly
will be some work I think.
-Daniel
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