Yeelong and SiliconMotion driver: asking for developers

Octavio Rossell octavio at gnu.org.ve
Wed Mar 10 08:09:11 PST 2010


I said the text may contain bugs. This is one of them and I have fixed it.

Any Free Licence will work. The main problem here is a performance
behaviour.

Owain Ainsworth escribió:
> On Tue, Mar 09, 2010 at 10:22:28PM -0430, Octavio Rossell wrote:
>> The idea of this wiki:
>> http://gnu.org.ve/~octavio/lemote/doku.php?id=siliconmotiondriver
>> is to collect all info for makin this easy. If any of you have more info
>> or has a technical correction is ok (is on free editing mode) but is
>> only a space where to put the info with an universal scope.
> 
> 
> Can you please clarify what the comments about GPLv3 are supposed to
> mean on that page? Is it a reference to a non-public discussion?
> 
> If the current driver is licensed under the MIT/X11 license (as it would
> appear that it is) changing it without adding substantial new work is
> legally questionable at best. Furthermore, changing this license after
> adding to it could be considered to be obnoxious and anti-community.
> 
> Cheers,
> -0-

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