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| author | Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> | 2005-06-12 23:58:08 +0200 |
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| committer | Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> | 2006-04-09 04:03:20 +0200 |
| commit | 05125be050323a9d1a407a198d428e368692b01b (patch) | |
| tree | 920318c459c2a5bf18f9a6b245c1085e0f945d6b /README | |
| parent | f0f87ac9ad615ee67583cfe42f2b240127343ddb (diff) | |
Added a "When will the driver be included in the XOrg
distribution?" entry to the FAQ.
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@@ -243,6 +243,21 @@ FAQ Yes, the source code is released under the GNU General Public License. +* When will the driver be included in the XOrg distribution? + + This is unlikely to happen because of copyright issues. Although + the GPL license is compatible with the license used by the XOrg X + server, the XOrg project doesn't want to include GPL code in their + source code, because it would effectively make the whole XOrg + project GPL. The synaptics license can't be changed unless all + copyright holders agree to change the license, but previous + attempts to find all copyright holders for the synaptics source + code have failed. + + So unfortunately, the best we can currently hope for is that the + synaptics driver is included as a separate package by the major + distributions. + * How do I use this driver with Linux kernel 2.6.x? You need to have the "evdev" driver loaded or compiled into the |