Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Mar 2009 15:00:32 +0000 | From | Alan Cox <> | Subject | Re: [patch 0/5] Intel Poulsbo/Morrestown DRM driver and DRM core changes |
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> > By the same logic, would you support including the proprietary NVIDIA > > driver while we wait for Nouveau to catch up? > > The license of the NVIDIA driver does not allow that to even be a > possibility.
I'm not convinced this is any different. If you accept the 3D changes you step into a dangerous world of estoppel and since it has many rightsholders also the wonderful world of contributory infringement. It really really needs lawyers to look into it.
Now the other way to do it that might be more productive and simpler would be to rip all the 3D crap out of that driver and just include the minimum needed 2D bits for the open source X driver. Makes the code smaller and cleaner, avoids an legal questions and lets people get on with real work.
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