[Pixman] [PATCH] ARMv5 optimisations

[Søren Sandmann]

Andre Renaud <andre at bluewatersys.com> writes:

>>>> As the code comes from the Android code base, it is Apache licensed -
>>>> is this a problem with Pixman?
>>>
>>> I am not a lawyer, but Apache license does not seem to be
>>> compatible with GPL2 according to:
>>>    http://www.apache.org/licenses/GPL-compatibility.html
>>> This is an extra restriction, which does not exist in the current
>>> pixman MIT/X11 license. I personally would not touch Apache licensed
>>> code without a really good reason.
>>
>> Yeah, unfortunately we can't ship Apache licensed code in pixman.
>
> Thanks for all the feedback, I'll probably take a look at the bugs &
> check them. However given that the license is incompatible, it doesn't
> seem like there is much point in continuing with this, as it's not
> possible for it to be merged. Unfortunately I don't think my ARM ASM
> skills are up to recreating these from scratch.
>
> Is the Pixman project GPL2? I thought it was all MIT - is that an
> upcoming change?

It's all MIT, but if we added Apache licensed code, it would effectively
become Apache licensed and therefore among other things become
incompatible with GPL2.


Søren