Re: [gNewSense-users] kernel - mach64 copyrigth

[Sam Geeraerts]

crap0101 wrote:
> Hi,
> At this stage, I think there's no expectancy for a reply from ATI about
> this issue.
> Neither the people @ fsf got answer, the last mounth they wrote me the
> follow:
>
> Il giorno lun, 12/01/2009 alle 15.06 -0500, Donald R Robertson III via
> RT ha scritto:
> > Hello again,
> >
> > Unfortunately, I have not heard back from ATI. Hopefully we'll hear
> > from
> > them at some point. Thanks for taking your time on this.
> >
> > > address@hidden - Mon Jan 12 09:07:22 2009]:
> > >
> > >
> > > good morning,
> > >
> > > There 's some news about this issue?
> > > Any answer from ATI?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Marco
>
> I think we can cease to wait for it... the question is: remove or not
> remove?

That's too bad. It's better to be safe then sorry, so I say remove it. 
However, the file's status is still unconclusive, so I'd leave the bug 
report open.

There's an AMD/ATI related talk at FOSDEM next weekend [1], but it's 
doubtfull that the speaker can help us because he's not from AMD and not 
a lawyer.

[1] http://www.fosdem.org/2009/schedule/events/xorg_r600_demo