Suspected X Server Copyright Infrigement

Mateusz Jończyk mat.jonczyk at o2.pl
Mon Apr 28 02:58:29 PDT 2014


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//CCing debian-legal for some guidance

Hello,
Could You review the code in
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xfree86/modes/xf86cvt.c
and
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/tree/hw/xwayland/xwayland-cvt.c

There is a comment that claims that it was based on some XLS spreadsheet. It can be
found currently at http://www.elo.utfsm.cl/~elo212/docs/CVTd6r1.xls (probably the
same version).

Some points of view on this issue could be found in this thread:
http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel/2014-April/042189.html

The code may have also wandered into the Linux kernel:
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcvt.c
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_modes.c

Greetings,
Mateusz Jończyk
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