On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 11:16:39AM -0700, Jon Smirl wrote:
> At the X Developers Conference there was a discussion of the issues around
> framebuffer and DRI. Theodore Ts'o suggested that I write it up and post it for
> discussion. I'm going to try and list all of the issues I've heard from all
> sides so some of the proposed solutions are in conflict. The goal of this list
> is to provide direction for a topic discussion at the Ottawa Kernel Summit.

[...]
> A major topic that I missed in the original list was how to handle BSD. DRM is
> under the BSD license and FB is GPL. If these two code bases are merged, what
> are we going to do about BSD? I don't know the appropriate BSD lists to post
> this to so please forward as necessary.

What is exactly your question concerning licenses?

> Another topic that I missed was, why did kgi fail and what can we do to avoid
> repeating the same path this time around.

KGI failed to be accepted by linus/linux. You surely don't want repeating this ;)
Otherwise, its design is still valid, I believe.

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