GPL flag for x.org drivers

Alan Coopersmith alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Tue May 15 08:48:46 PDT 2007


Andreas Girlich wrote:
> So why not prohibit the use of binary drivers in x.org? 

Because that would just cause another fork to be started which
allowed binary drivers, and which the majority of the userbase
would use instead, since they care more about performance and
features than zealotry.

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	-Alan Coopersmith-           alan.coopersmith at sun.com
	 Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering



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