On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 12:54:30PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2004-12-31 04:32:37 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > We need a URL to a source package, please. > > I added > > deb-src http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at/debian.uniklu/ sarge/uniklu/desktop main > contrib non-free > > to my sources.list, commented out the other deb-src lines and did: > > dixsept:~> apt-get source xserver-xfree86 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree... Done > Need to get 62.5MB of source archives. > Get:1 http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at sarge/uniklu/desktop/main xfree86 > 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8.uk (dsc) [2435B] > Get:2 http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at sarge/uniklu/desktop/main xfree86 > 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8.uk (tar) [59.1MB] > Get:3 http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at sarge/uniklu/desktop/main xfree86 > 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8.uk (diff) [3349kB] > Fetched 62.5MB in 38s (1625kB/s) > > dpkg-source: extracting xfree86 in xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1
Okay. > > More precisely, what we need are patches (untainted by the XFree86 1.1 > > license) that will apply cleanly to our SVN trunk, and people willing to > > test those patches. > > There's a patch debian/patches/990_i810_i915_from_4_4.diff but it > could be tainted by the XFree86 1.1 license since it comes from 4.4 > (but the files don't mention the license, so I'm not sure -- they > mention the authors, though: Alan Hourihane and Keith Whitwell). If David Dawes has touched any files with a copyrightable modification, then it is safe to assume that tainting has taken place, since he made a public declaration on the subject: Everything I do is covered by the 1.1 licence unless I explicitly state otherwise.[1] Marc La France has not, to my knowledge, made a similar declaration, but given his feelings on the relicensing issue[2], I feel the safe course of action is to assume that he feels as David Dawes. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05959.html [2] "XFree86 didn't start this. So I'd talk to your cohorts about their justification for such costs. Somebody, somewhere, forgot a carry." http://www.openpegasus.org/show_mail.tpl?source=L&listname=xorg_foundation&id=140 -- G. Branden Robinson | The more ridiculous a belief Debian GNU/Linux | system, the higher the probability [EMAIL PROTECTED] | of its success. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Wayne R. Bartz
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