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

On a side note, it looks like there is some discussion going on in the 
X.org mailing list about taking advantage of this license change period to 
make their first release. 

http://www.opengroup.org/sophocles/show_mail.tpl?source=L&listname=xorg_foundation&id=214

Not holding my breath for it, but at least there is hope of an alternative 
in the near future.

-casey



On Sat, 21 Feb 2004, Casey Harkins wrote:

> 
> 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
> 
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