GPL flag for x.org drivers

[Andreas Girlich]

On Tue, 15 May 2007 09:10:46 -0500
"Alex Deucher" <alexdeucher at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.

Ok.

So why not prohibit the use of binary drivers in x.org? Btw, forget the
Linux/GPL thing.

Regards,
Andreas