On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 07:42:24AM -0500, Chris Cheney wrote: > > * Should we go our own way starting from the "sanitized" XFree86 CVS > > snapshot we've prepared? > > I don't see much point in doing this again since other people have > already done this in the past, right? And if we don't use one of the two > main X trees that would end up putting a lot more work on XSF's > shoulders to track patches.
The advantage to this is that we know where the code came from with that tree. Several times, possible issues with XFree86 license contamination have been raised with the X.Org folks, and no concrete action has been taken. Let me mitigate that complaint by observing: 1) Maybe no one is sure whose bailiwick it is; 2) Most of the X.Org/freedesktop.org folks aren't as psychotically meticulous about license issues as I am; 3) Figuring out which license goes with which commits to XFree86 CVS is major challenge given the shifting sands of XFree86's own represenatations on the subject. For example, as I have pointed out elsewhere[1], David Dawes of XFree86 has asserted that the new XFree86 license can attach to a file without any evidence of that fact being in the entire source tree (or even in the CVS commit message, which wouldn't suffice anyway). I am pretty confident this particular problem of contamination will be straightened out. I just don't know when. > We could go with multiple implementations of the xserver and just use > the FreeDesktop.Org xlibs if wanted, that should cut down on a lot of > the work since you would only be duplicating the xserver. However, if > FreeDesktop.Org's xserver really does include the equivalent of the > X.Org xserver there may be little point in having multiple xservers in > the archive. It does not, and it may be quite some time before it does. Given the proliferation of X servers we're seeing, I'm glad Discover 2.x is around. Thanks for your feedback! [1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/05/msg00209.html -- G. Branden Robinson | For every credibility gap, there is Debian GNU/Linux | a gullibility fill. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | -- Richard Clopton http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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