Synaptics MIT license approved

[Alex Deucher]

On 5/16/07, Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:59:22PM +0200, Christoph Brill wrote:
>
> > I also have been told that MIT/X11 license is incompatible with GPLv2.
> > If that is not the fact, why was I told that this driver can never be
> > shipped with the X.org sources?
>
> It's a policy decision, not a legal one. There's a desire to keep the
> main X.org tree GPLed.
>
> > c) move the driver over to freedesktop.org and keep it GPLv2 and hope
> >    that X.org developers will touch the driver to reflect changes that
> >    happen X.org
> >
> > "a)" is the most work with no real benefit. "b)" least work but I
> > already spent to much time for that. "c)" is what I thought was
> > impossible.
>
> I don't see (c) as being a problem, though it may discourage some
> vendors from shipping the code.

Last time this was suggested, the general opinion was to not allow it
into freedesktop since it was and xorg driver that was GPL.

Alex