Bug 9629 - Files under GPL License
Summary: Files under GPL License
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Server/General (show other bugs)
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)
Hardware: All All
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Keywords: licence
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Blocks: xorg-7.3
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Reported: 2007-01-12 12:43 UTC by Dan McNichol
Modified: 2007-08-30 11:32 UTC (History)
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Description Dan McNichol 2007-01-12 12:43:07 UTC 
The following files in the xorg-server package are under the GPL license:
xorg-server-1.1.1/hw/kdrive/neomagic/backend.c
xorg-server-1.1.1/hw/kdrive/neomagic/backend.h

Seems like it would be a good thing to see if the original author would agree
to make these files available under the X11 license.
Comment 1 Daniel Stone 2007-02-27 01:35:40 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 2007-08-20 15:46:29 UTC 
As a bonus, this is actually MIT code that's been sublicensed ("Copied from the ati driver."), without reproducing the copyright and disclaimer.  Awesome!

Someone should just take the ati code, throw it into kdrive/src/ as backend.c, and replace the neomagic and ati backend code with that.
Comment 3 Eric Anholt 2007-08-30 11:32:20 UTC 
Fixed by git-rm on master and server-1.4-branch.

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