[openchrome-devel] drm-openchrome: Branch 'drm-next-5.2' - drivers/gpu/drm

[Kevin Brace]

Hi Mario,

Can you clarify a little more what you are trying to say?
Isn't the license attached to the file already a MIT license?

Regards,

Kevin Brace
Brace Computer Laboratory blog
https://bracecomputerlab.com


> Sent: Tuesday, March 19, 2019 at 8:25 PM
> From: "Mario Rugiero" <mrugiero at gmail.com>
> To: "Luc Verhaegen" <libv at skynet.be>
> Cc: "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace at kemper.freedesktop.org>, openchrome-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [openchrome-devel] drm-openchrome: Branch 'drm-next-5.2' - drivers/gpu/drm
>
> I don't think it's entirely obvious, so I'll add to Luc's message.
> The statement in Luc's mail imply you should add such a copyright
> notice and a copy (if not already included) of the MIT license in the
> files containing this code or derivatives (and maybe other files,
> too), as those are the terms under which the code was licensed.
> Cheers,
> Mario.
> 
> El mar., 19 mar. 2019 a las 16:11, Luc Verhaegen (<libv at skynet.be>) escribió:
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 19, 2019 at 06:15:43PM +0000, Kevin Brace wrote:
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/openchrome/openchrome_drv.h  |    2
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/openchrome/openchrome_fb.c   |  884 -------------------------
> > >  drivers/gpu/drm/openchrome/openchrome_init.c |  939 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> > >  3 files changed, 940 insertions(+), 885 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > New commits:
> > > commit fba2aa548c6ff9cadd3e3b3fa0e23447cdb07768
> > > Author: Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com>
> > > Date:   Tue Mar 19 11:15:19 2019 -0700
> > >
> > >     drm/openchrome: Move VRAM size detection code
> > >
> > >     The code was transferred to openchrome_init.c since the code runs
> > >     only once during initialization.
> > >
> > >     Signed-off-by: Kevin Brace <kevinbrace at gmx.com>
> >
> > You will find that James Simmons blatantly copied this code from
> > https://cgit.freedesktop.org/~libv/xf86-video-unichrome/tree/src/via_host.c
> >
> > The copyright on that code is
> >         Copyright 2006-2009 Luc Verhaegen.
> > On an MIT license.
> >
> > Via code never poked northbridge registers directly. This was all borne
> > out of my coreboot work.
> >
> > Luc Verhaegen.
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