GPL flag for x.org drivers

Alex Deucher alexdeucher at gmail.com
Tue May 15 07:10:46 PDT 2007


On 5/15/07, Andreas Girlich <xorg at bee.de> wrote:
> On Tue, 15 May 2007 12:46:48 +0100
> Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure it helps in the X.org case much as the log shows what
> > drivers were used.
>
> I'm not quite sure if I really understood what you mean. I'm not a
> coder or a developer, so can you describe your idea? If you meant
> naming the used driver in the x.org log file, then I'm sure that this
> happens already. Or did I missed something?
>

yes it does.  that's why there's little point in adding a "taint" or
binary driver flag as you can see from the log that the user is
running a binary driver.

Alex



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