[Openchrome-users] VIA: Decent Drivers for Linux Petition (please help if you can)

[Forest Bond]

Hi,

On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 02:18:44PM -0500, Karim Yaghmour wrote:
> The basic fact is that they do publish source for their drivers at
> viaarena.com and the X server part of that source is licensed under the
> original MIT license. Hence, there's nothing precluding you from taking
> that code, vetting it and pushing it up to the xorg folks.

There's also this:

http://www.alittletooquiet.net/text/a-license-for-the-via-vt6656-linux-driver/

In other words, VIA publishes the source for *some* drivers, and publishes
reasonable licenses for only some of those.

Then there's also XvMC support in the way of a custom version of mplayer.  This,
of course, isn't useful to anybody that's interested in keeping their software
up-to-date, or anybody that's interested in using a different video player.  In
fact, in practice, it's useful to very few people at all.  XvMC support belongs
in the driver, and in a library, so all of the different players can use it.

Why do they waste development dollars on projects that aren't of any value to
the open-source community?  They could be getting some pay-off from these
investments, but they choose not to (it would seem).

> You've got plenty of raw talent, but there's a disconnect between those
> manufacturers and the open source world.

You bet there's a disconnect.

> The problem of course is that nobody should be doing this other than VIA.

Why?

-Forest
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Forest Bond
http://www.alittletooquiet.net
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