Bug 10065

Summary:	Possible GPL license in xorg server
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Dan McNichol <mcnichol>
Component:	Server/General	Assignee:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	licence
Version:	7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware:	Other
OS:	All
Whiteboard:
i915 platform:		i915 features:
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	8888

Description Dan McNichol 2007-02-22 15:06:17 UTC

There could be GPL contamination with these files:
xorg-server-1.1.1/hw/xfree86/int10/helper_exec.c
xorg-server-1.1.1/hw/xfree86/int10/helper_mem.c

Both of these files contain comments indicating at least part of the
code was lifted from the DOSEMU project, which is GPL licensed code.

These files contain no license information, and no indication that
the DOSEMU authors allowed relicense under the MIT/X11 license.

Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:36:34 UTC

Sorry about the phenomenal bug spam, guys.  Adding xorg-team@ to the QA contact so bugs don't get lost in future.

Comment 2 Eric Anholt 2007-08-30 11:32:25 UTC

Comment fix removing the confusion has been pushed to master and server-1.4-branch.

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