Re: VirtualBox drm/kms driver

[Valery Ushakov <uwe%stderr.spb.ru@localhost>]

On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 06:29:18 +1100, matthew green wrote:

> Valery Ushakov writes:
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 07:41:07 +0000, Taylor R Campbell wrote:
> > 
> > > > Valery Ushakov writes:
> > > > > maya%netbsd.org@localhost wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > >  * Copyright (C) 2013-2016 Oracle Corporation
> > > > > >  *
> > > > > >  * This file is part of VirtualBox Open Source Edition (OSE), ...
> > > > > 
> > > > > And your point is?
> > > > 
> > > > i think you skipped the next 3 relevant lines:
> > > > 
> > > >  * available from http://www.virtualbox.org. This file is free software;
> > > >  * you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
> > > >  * General Public License (GPL) as published by the Free Software
> > > > 
> > > > ie, we can't use this in the kernel.
> > > 
> > > Can't statically link it into the kernel, but my understanding is that
> > > it is still kosher as a dynamically loaded kernel module.
> > 
> > Exactly.
> 
> that doesn't change anything when it comes to what we put in
> to our kernel source tree - no GPL is the rule there.

Where did you get the idea that this code will be put into our kernel
source tree?

Cf. exisiting guest additions code that is in the vbox tree under the
same license.

-uwe