I picked a very simple piece of code to start out with as a test case. The I2C code is only a hundred lines and could be rewritten. But what's the point, BSD doesn't have Linux's I2C driver system. This code has no value anywhere but on Linux.
That's not a statement thats safe to make. BSD (or any other OS that XOrg supports) may not have Linux's I2C driver system. TODAY. What if, next week, BSD gets such a beast, or HP-UX does, or Solaris or whatever. Maybe now that code that is currently only of value on Linux is of value on a broad range of systems. Now you have the potential for a broad range of non-GPL systems to be dependent on GPL code, which is, after all, the point I think the original strawman paper was addressing.
If XOrg is trying to be "license agnostic", it is going to need to stay away from the GPL. The current MIT style license seems to be quite acceptable to GPL-centric projects. However, the reverse is not (always) true.
Kean
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