Bug 23768 - New graphic driver - asking for a new repository made containing it.
Summary: New graphic driver - asking for a new repository made containing it.
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 26988
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Driver/other (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Blocks: 1903
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Reported: 2009-09-07 02:07 UTC by rdcdrv
Modified: 2010-08-29 22:56 UTC (History)
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Attachments
The source code of our driver (91.91 KB, application/download)
2009-09-07 02:07 UTC, rdcdrv
no flags Details
RDC VGA source code under MIT license (98.31 KB, application/download)
2010-03-09 21:32 UTC, rdcdrv
no flags Details

Description rdcdrv 2009-09-07 02:07:10 UTC
Created attachment 29295 [details]
The source code of our driver

The graphic driver for RDC 3306 video chip is attached.
Asking for get a new repository made containing it.
Comment 1 Alan Coopersmith 2009-09-08 08:03:47 UTC
For reference, this device seems to be embedded in an x86-compatible CPU/GPU
combination chip:
   http://www.rdc.com.tw/en/product_kinds_more.php?Id=49&Type=1
Comment 2 rdcdrv 2010-03-08 09:16:37 UTC
Update the link to the introduction of this SOC, http://www.rdc.com.tw/tw/product/iad.htm
Comment 3 rdcdrv 2010-03-08 09:25:43 UTC
I know the next release of Xorg is X11R7.6.
Will this driver be merged into X11R7.6?

Comment 4 Mikhail Gusarov 2010-03-08 09:36:59 UTC
Sorry that this bug fell through cracks.

Please request the account per http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests and mention that you'll need new repository for a driver, so you'll be able to maintain it yourself.
Comment 5 Alan Coopersmith 2010-03-08 09:49:54 UTC
X.Org cannot accept the driver source submitted since all the source code
files list the license as GPL, which is not allowed under our license policies.

X.Org requires a "permissive" license of the MIT/BSD families for source
contributions to our project - our preferred license is shown at
http://www.x.org/releases/X11R7.5/doc/LICENSE.html or in the COPYING file
in the xorg-server sources.

If this was correctly licensed, to get it added under the current model
of a separate xf86-video-* module per driver (though your driver seems to
disagree on whether it should be xf86-video-rdc or xf86-video-aip), you'd
need to have someone to serve as the maintainer, and get them a freedesktop.org
account under the X.Org project by following the process shown on 
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/AccountRequests 

However, it's been proposed that the drivers merge back into the main 
Xserver module for an Xorg release after Xorg 1.8 (but possibly before
X11R7.6), so whether or not it will be worth adding a new module or waiting
until that happens is an excellent question to ask on the xorg-devel mailing 
list.
Comment 6 rdcdrv 2010-03-09 21:32:18 UTC
Created attachment 33910 [details]
RDC VGA source code under MIT license

Change the license from GPL to MIT.
Comment 7 Jesse Adkins 2010-08-29 22:56:41 UTC
#23768 contains source code for rdcdrv, in case that helps.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 26988 ***


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