Synaptics MIT license, again

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Mon, 21 May 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> For what it's worth, I'm not willing to have any of the code I wrote for 
> Synaptics changed to a license that allows the production of proprietary 
> derivative works. I don't see any advantage to it - with modularisation, 
> it makes no difference whether a driver is part of the core tree or not. 

I think part of the advantage is future maintenance.

By the way, I find it hard to understand a disagreement to the X.org's 
chosen license by those who do X11-related coding work or even use any 
product of the software with these MIT-style licenses.


  Jeremy C. Reed