[Xorg] Dynamic mouse accelaration

[Ely Levy]

On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Egbert Eich wrote:

> Alex Deucher writes:
>  >
>  > 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...
>  >
>
> I'm not so much for bundeling this with the current X tree.
> In a modularized environment we are aiming for such issues
> will go away anyway.
> However there is a much more interesting problem to resolve:
> What it one starts a server with a GPLed mouse driver and
> a binary only (lets say) Nvidia driver? Would this be a violation
> of the GPL? Who would have committed the license violation?
> The user who has started the Xserver? The distributor (provided
> there is one) who has bundeled the pieces (or at least has made
> it possible to configure the system in such a way that these
> drivers are started together?
The problem would start only if those drivers use each other,
GPL talk about derived work.

> Before we get into another License discussion I'd rather stay
> away from any GPLed driver code altogether. Besides the 2.6 Linux
OK,
if its a descion made by the majority I accept it,
The other option is reimplemanting it, who volunteer to it?:)

> kernel contains a synaptics driver so for Linux users there is
> no real need to use this GPLed X driver.

I don't think Xorg know how to use it?
or am I wrong?

Ely