Dominique Dumont wrote: > Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> (Fellow debian-x subscribers: I'd like your feedback on this message, as >> once debian-legal has made its decision regarding the DFSG-freeness of >> the X-Oz license, I'd like to re-purpose it, perhaps as a mail to >> debian-devel-announce and/or as a position statement to placed on the X >> Strike Force news page. If any contributor to Debian's X packaging has >> any objection to the above statements, please speak up.) > > Looks like the issue revolves arounf the advertisement of Xfree86. > > OK, I may be naive, but could we suggest Xfree's owners that they can > handle their own advertising without the X-oz licence: When Xfree > starts, there's always 1 oe 2 seconds of a grey mesh. Why don't they > place their advertising here. The advert could last one or 2 seconds > or the time required for [xkw]dm to start. > > This way, they would have their advertising without changing the > licenses or impacting Xfree developers. > > Cheers > > (I really hope not to start a flame war ...)
They don't want people to be able to legally remove the advertisement. wt -- Warren Turkal President, GOLUM, Inc. http://www.golum.org
