On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:49, Warren Turkal wrote: > 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.
And that violates the GPL's "no restrictions" clause. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA "Go not unto the Usenet for advice, for you will be told both yea and nay (and quite a few things that just have nothing at all to do with the question)." Unknown
