GPL code in ATI GATOS codedrop

[Alex Deucher]

On 8/23/05, Vladimir Dergachev <volodya at mindspring.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On Tue, 23 Aug 2005, Shawn Starr wrote:
> 
> >
> > Except the kernel driver and USB remote control code.
> > That I believe was still GPL.
> 
> The code I committed to Xorg tree should be under MIT/X license - I would
> be very surprised if any GPL messages sneaked through.
> 
> As Shawn pointed out the USB remove and kernel driver are GPL (both are
> Linux drivers).
> 
> Also, AVview (TV viewing application) is also GPL.
> 
> Lastly, TV-out code produced by Federico Ulivi is also GPL.
> 

the theatre 200 code that was recently added is probably the culprit.

Alex

>                       best
> 
>                          Vladimir Dergachev
> 
> >
> > --- Shawn Starr <shawn.starr at rogers.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Originally he told me it was MIT all of it...
> >>
> >> CCing: Vladimir Dergachev volodya at mindspring.com
> >>
> >> --- Dave Airlie <airlied at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> A few of us noticed today that the GATOS code
> >>> dropped into CVS is
> >>> under a GPL license, this means the code will have
> >>> to be dropped out
> >>> of the tree until the author(s) can agree to
> >>> re-license it under a
> >>> more suitable license (MIT, BSD with no
> >> advertising
> >>> clauses or XFree86
> >>> 1.0 not 1.1)
> >>>
> >>> Hopefully we can sort this out before we have to
> >>> drop this valuable
> >>> code from the tree..
> >>>
> >>> Dave.