Re: Linux, UDI and SCO.

Tethys (tethys@ml.com)
Fri, 25 Sep 1998 14:58:14 +0100

>There is a solution: The authors of a GPL driver could
>agree to rerelease it under different license, for example
>the X11R3 license. But all authors must agree, and many
>Linux drivers have several authors. I can't see this
>happening on a large scale unless someone is actually
>paying the driver writers.
>
> [...]
>
>Perhaps you should be talking more with the Free/Open/NetBSD
>people. Their license is much more flexible in this regard.

Not to throw more fuel on the fire, but LGPL would be much
better in this case, ensuring that if commercial OS vendors
improved the driver, they would have to share it with the
rest of the world. BSD/X11 licenses would let them keep
their improvements to themselves. Yes, binary compatible
drivers would mean we could still use the improvements,
but we wouldn't have the source.

Tet

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