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

Wed Mar 20 00:16:54 UTC 2019

On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 01:07:59AM +0100, Kevin Brace wrote:
> 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?

> > > 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.

This is code copy/pasted from the unichrome driver, and reformatted to 
be kernel code.

The copyright on that file should at least include:

Luc Verhaegen.