Bug 16366

Summary:	Copyright of some source files is non-free
Product:	xorg	Reporter:	Chris Lamb <chris>
Component:	Driver/nouveau	Assignee:	Nouveau Project <nouveau>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity:	normal
Priority:	medium	Keywords:	licence
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
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Description Chris Lamb 2008-06-15 18:23:38 UTC

Hi,

The nv_cursor.c, nv_setup.c, nv_local.h, nv_hw.c, nv_exa.c, nv_dac.c and nv_dac.c files appear to be licensed in such a way that is not free software (only allows use, not redistribution or modification, etc):

*snip*

|*     NOTICE TO USER:   The source code  is copyrighted under  U.S. and     *|
|*     international laws.  Users and possessors of this source code are     *|
|*     hereby granted a nonexclusive,  royalty-free copyright license to     *|
|*     use this code in individual and commercial software.

*snip*

It would be great if this could be relicensed to match the rest of Nouveau.

Comment 1 Maarten Maathuis 2008-06-25 10:11:43 UTC

Relicensed in response to nv commit 2fdcda8ea62eba1b7885f0a75249884715936247.

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