re: VirtualBox drm/kms driver

[matthew green <mrg%eterna.com.au@localhost>]

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.

can't you get them to relicense it like the majority of the
drm code?


.mrg.