[d-kernel] Re: [dawes@XFree86.Org: Re: Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.]

Alexey Tourbin at at altlinux.ru
Sun Feb 1 00:03:01 MSK 2004


On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 07:40:24PM +0300, Anton Farygin wrote:
> From: David Dawes <dawes at XFree86.Org>
> To: devel at xfree86.org

> On looking through the fbdev drivers in the Linux kernel source, I see
> very few cases where license notices from XFree86 driver source are
> included.  This means that either the license for these drivers has no
> impact on the work you are talking about (making what you have written
> above moot), or some authors of portions of the current Linux fbdev code
> have violated the terms of the existing licenses by not including a
> verbatim copy of the copyright, license notice, and disclaimer text in
> relevant source code.

Hi, мне интересно, чем кончится эта дискуссия (и насколько несовместимы
BSD и GPL лицензии в целом).

> I would also like to echo Egbert's comments about the one-way nature of
> your concerns.
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