[Open-graphics] does open graphics board run initialization code on the host cpu ?

[PcgScrapAddy]

The Linux drivers need to be GPL so they can be included in the mainline 
kernel but we are so far away from that I shouldn't even mention it. The 
rest of the stuff needs to be under a MySQL like license in that if you 
are commercial then pay up! I think this is what is being striven for so 
a revenue stream is built-in to support ongoing development.

Am I wrong?

Hamie wrote:
> On Friday 29 February 2008 16:14:06 you wrote:
>> On 2/29/08, Kenneth Ostby <kenneo at langly.org> wrote:
>>> Hamish:
>>>> On Wednesday 27 February 2008 19:02:03 Michael Meeuwisse wrote:
>>>  >> On 27 Feb 2008, at 19:24, matt hull wrote:
>>>  >> > i not not a graphics card expert but have been told that current
>>>  >> > proprietary cards run initialization code on the host cpu during
>>>  >> > boot.
>>>  >>
>>>  >> In theory, yes. For OGD1 currently no boot code exists but some will
>>>  >> be available in the near future.
>>>  >
>>>  >I've started to look at this... I notice there's nowhere in the SVN
>>>  > directory structure currently for it to go. WHo's got write access
>>>  > that could create a subdir in there for it?
>>>
>>> A better start would be for you to submitt a patch with the code for a
>>>  VGA bios to the mailing list. That way we could read it and certify it,
>>>  and see if we agree with the code.
>>>
>>>  Then we could start worry about getting it into the subversion, as there
>>>  is no point in having empty directories.
>> Someone was suggesting that we use some existing code.  I think it
>> might have been from Bochs.  Personally, I'd prefer that we had
>> something under the MIT license.  We've had more than one potential
> 
> WHy MIT? IIUC the MIT license is BSD-like in that you explicitly give anyone 
> else (e.g. M$) the rights to take your code & resell it for profit, giving 
> nothing back (Unlike the GPL which states that everything is given back)... 
> Or do i read it incorrectly?
> 
> 
>> customer for our VGA solution come and go because it's not finished.
>> I'm hoping to work more on it again in a few weeks.
> 
> 
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