Bug 10065 - Possible GPL license in xorg server
Summary: Possible GPL license in xorg server
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Server/General (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Keywords: licence
Depends on:
Blocks: xorg-7.3
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Reported: 2007-02-22 15:06 UTC by Dan McNichol
Modified: 2007-08-30 11:32 UTC (History)
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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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