Synaptics MIT license approved

mcnichol at austin.ibm.com mcnichol at austin.ibm.com
Wed May 16 15:37:14 PDT 2007


> From: Keith Packard <keithp at keithp.com>
>
> Not that I recall; fd.o hosts several GPL/LGPL projects already. The
> only restriction is that the X.org 'katamari' releases (the 7.x series)
> should remain MIT licensed to allow people building GPL-incompatible
> systems to continue to use these releases.
> 
> There isn't any reason we cannot host GPL licensed drivers in the X.org
> git repository, bugzill and mailing lists though, if that would be
> convenient for the synaptics developers.

Using x.org bugzilla and mailing lists sounds ok, but I think putting
GPL code in the X.Org repository is a policy change that starts us
down a road where some would rather not go.

Dan



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