[Xorg] Dynamic mouse accelaration

[Ely Levy]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Sean Middleditch wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 08:36, Alex Deucher wrote:
>
> > > No, if it is GPL this is unlikely.
> >
> > Why not just include it along with a copy of the GPL?  Some of the
> > other code in X has different licenses. IANAL, but can't different
> > modules with different licenses live together?  Just change the overall
> > X.org license to say "modules are licensed with their respective
> > licenses. see source."  the X.org/xfree86 licenses can continue to have
> > their licneses and new modules can have whatever open source license
> > they want...
>
> Depends on how you interpret the license.  When working with modules on
> an old project some years ago I contacted the FSF legal advice to ask
> about mixing BSD/MIT licenses with GPL.  According to them (and thus to
> anyone else who interprets the GPL the way they do) if you link a GPL
> module to a BSD/MIT project, that project then implicitly is also GPL,
> and thus other modules you link in must be GPL compatible, or else you
> are violating the license of the GPL module.
>
> That, to me, sounds 100% correct in terms of the *spirit* of the GPL
> ("don't use me with proprietary code"), but I won't claim that it's
> actually legally enforceable.  An independent lawyer would be best to
> answer that.

GPL never changes the license of anything, the only question is if its
GPL compatible or not, and as stated in FSF site the new BSD/MIT licenses
are GPL compatible and therefore can be used.
for example linking staticly to xlibs by a GPL app doesn't make xlibs
GPLed, and the other way around for BSD licensed program linking to GPLed
library. (I'm sure google would provide few examples).

Ely