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[Casey Harkins <charkins AT upl.cs.wisc.edu>]

On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Hamish Greig wrote:

> On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 04:55, Eric Sandall wrote:
> > The current xfree86-devel is okay, yes? If so, then we just leave it as is
> > and not update it anymore. We don't even need to make a non-free X spell,
> > as why should we support it? That'd add a little more pressure.
> >
> > -sandalle
> 
> xfree86-devel in devel repo is WIP and has been updated to the version that 
> has the new license.
> Casey's point about client side libraries being excluded from the 1.1 
> license 
> and still only using 1.0 license is likely correct, but that is the point 
> everyone else is debating still so there must be some catch to it.
> 

Agreed, that does seem to still be a point of debate.

As Schabell pointed out, there seems to be a consensus here to reject the
new license. So the current xfree86 and xfree86-devel spells should be
frozen at their current versions. Perhaps there should be a news item 
posted on the website indicating the decision?

If future versions of xfree86 are to be included, they should go into
z-rejected, with new names. Maybe something along the lines of:

xfree86-containing-software-developed-by-the-XFree86-Project-Inc
xfree86-containing-software-developed-by-the-XFree86-Project-Inc-devel

So anyone try using freedesktop.org's X libraries yet? 

-casey