[RFC] X.Org minimum requirements for Autotools policy review

Matt Turner mattst88 at gmail.com
Fri Oct 25 19:54:13 CEST 2013


On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 10:51 AM, Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2013 at 8:13 AM, Gaetan Nadon <memsize at videotron.ca> wrote:
>> Speaking of Mesa, you may be concerned that part of Mesa source code is
>> GPL v3. I suppose it taints xorg which links to mesa. That was another
>> question I had.
>
> The only thing I see in Mesa is ralloc.h, which lists LGPLv3, but I
> think it's a mistake. I'll check into it.

Ah, missing some context:

/*
 * The talloc implementation is available under the GNU Lesser
 * General Public License (GNU LGPL), version 3 or later. It is
 * more sophisticated than ralloc in that it includes reference
 * counting and debugging features. See: http://talloc.samba.org/
 */


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