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

[Kevin Brace]

Hi Luc,

Give me a day or two, but I will very likely put in your suggested copyright language, along with "Suggest-by" credit for the commit.

Regards,

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


> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 at 1:16 AM
> From: "Luc Verhaegen" <libv at skynet.be>
> To: "Kevin Brace" <kevinbrace at gmx.com>
> Cc: openchrome-devel at lists.freedesktop.org
> Subject: Re: [openchrome-devel] drm-openchrome: Branch 'drm-next-5.2' - drivers/gpu/drm
>
> 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:
>
> Copyright 2006-2009 Luc Verhaegen.
>
> Luc Verhaegen.
>