Date: Fri, 1 Apr 2005 16:36:51 +0200 (CEST) From: <pfgshield-freebsd@yahoo.com> To: Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> Cc: x11@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD port: x11-servers/mga_hal should not be labelled RESTRICTED Message-ID: <20050401143651.76218.qmail@web51608.mail.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: 6667
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Hi; --- Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu> wrote: > > > > ftp://ftp.matrox.com/pub/mga/archive/linux/2004/readme_mgadriver_4_1.txt > > > > "Due to certain legal liabilities and for the protection of > > intellectual property, Matrox reserves licensing rights to the > > library and prohibits reverse engineering but allows free > > distribution under any operating system. Matrox encourages members > > of the open source community to freely distribute and assist in > > the further development of this driver." > > > > There's also an mgadriver-4.1-1-src.tar.gz that someone should hack, but > for > > the time being it would be really nice to remove RESTRICTED for this port. > > However, the click-through license to get the files, which reads like an > actual license, says something quite different. I'm going to stick with > the more restrictive one unless someone can get some clarification from > Matrox. (Yes, I've already tried.) > They stick that license to all the downloads from the website. I think the file distributed with the code takes precedence. It's just IMHO though, so I'll let the matter rest. Pedro. ___________________________________ Nuovo Yahoo! Messenger: E' molto più divertente: Audibles, Avatar, Webcam, Giochi, Rubrica… Scaricalo ora! http://it.messenger.yahoo.it
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