DragonFly BSD 4.6 Released

Re:DragonFly BSD 4.6 Released by leni536 on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:37PM (#12221302)

> The i915 driver has been updated to match the version found with the Linux 4.4 kernel.

> The radeon driver has been updated to match Linux 3.18 ...

Are they borrowing code from Linux? How do the licenses work out?

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Re:DragonFly BSD 4.6 Released by akerro on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:45PM (#12221359)

>Everything at the GPUOpen portal will be open source and licensed under the highly permissive MIT license, allowing developers to not only see the code behind RTG’s tools and libraries, but to integrate that code into open and closed source projects as they see fit.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/9853/amd-gpuopen-linux-open-so...

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Re:DragonFly BSD 4.6 Released by mioelnir on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:47PM (#12221377)

While the i915 driver nowadays lives in the Linux source tree, it is still released under a permissive license. Same goes for a lot of drm stuff. I'd assume similar for radeon.

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Re:DragonFly BSD 4.6 Released by Freaky on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @04:48PM (#12221384)

Most of DRM is MIT licensed, including these two drivers.

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Re:DragonFly BSD 4.6 Released by rjsw on Wednesday August 03, 2016 @05:07PM (#12221528)

The drivers for desktop GPUs are MIT licenced, most of the others seem to be GPL.

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