HAL support for wacom devices

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 04:37:04PM -0700, Ping wrote:
>    I am working on porting the Wacom Linux drvier to the latest Xorg server
>    with the new property interface support.  The driver is currently GPL
>    licensed.  I heard I need to use MIT/X11 license to be able to
>    host/maintain the driver under  freedesktop.org/git/xorg.  If this is
>    true, I would have to wait until we got all the permissions from previous
>    developers, which would take sometime.  Is it possible for me to expose
>    the GPL'd code at freedesktop.org/git/xorg before we get the permissions?

There's certainly no problem with hosting GPLed code on freedesktop.org 
in the general case. Personally I don't think there's any problem with 
hosting GPLed xorg drivers under the xorg namespace, providing they're 
not made part of the katamari releases.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org