xf86-video-dummy license clarification

Samuel Thibault samuel.thibault at ens-lyon.org
Mon Jun 15 07:55:00 UTC 2020


Lars-Dominik Braun, le dim. 14 juin 2020 09:11:05 +0200, a ecrit:
> Xorg’s dummy driver lacks a clear open source license statement[1]. Its
> COPYING file simply states “Copyright 2002, SuSE Linux AG”, indicating
> it is non-free software. Is that correct? I see Debian is distributing
> the driver under the terms of the X11 license[2], so is Gentoo Linux[3].

The driver's origin come from xfree86's X11-licensed server, see

http://snapshot.debian.org/archive/debian/20050312T000000Z/pool/main/x/xfree86/xfree86_4.3.0.dfsg.1.orig.tar.gz

./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/drivers/dummy/dummy_driver.c
./programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/doc/LICENSE

Apparently it was forgotten to copy over the license file.

Samuel


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