[Xorg] Dynamic mouse accelaration

[Daniel Stone]

On Mon, Jun 07, 2004 at 02:46:47PM +0300, Ely Levy wrote:
> On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Egbert Eich wrote:
> > Ely Levy writes:
> >  > http://w1.894.telia.com/~u89404340/touchpad/
> >  > is a touchpad drivers which support the feature you wanted
> >  > (if I understood right), you can look there for ideas,
> >  > (notice that the code is GPL and Xorg people might not be happy
> >  > to get it into the tree).
> >  > which reminds me, is this driver going to be included in the next release
> >  > of Xorg?
> >
> > No, if it is GPL this is unlikely.
> 
> What's so wrong with GPL?
> I agree that we should keep the code clean from GPLed code,
> but this is a seperate driver and there is no MIT/BSD licensed equalince
> for it, Who it would hurt if it would be added?
> There are other weird licenses in the code which are not as free
> as MIT/BSD.
> 
> maybe it should be in a diffrent package, but then again maybe all other
> weirdly licensed code should be in diffrent packages as well.

It is a real problem.

We (Debian) contacted all the contributors -- I believe Warren Turkal
did this one -- and we couldn't get on to one.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                            <daniel at freedesktop.org>
freedesktop.org: powering your desktop                http://www.freedesktop.org
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