Chris Adams wrote: > Given the questionable changes made to X.Org by the lead (only?) > developer of X11Libre before being removed from the project, including > possible license violations
The "license violations" are actually moving a few lines of mostly trivial declarations from one header file to another without copying the copyright notice. As I wrote in https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/veto-x11libre-replacing-xorg-for-fedora/155926/77 : > If you mean this one: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/346d5f5c352146879c749b2177b3671a374b6503 > which got reverted at X.Org for alleged copyright violation: > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2019 > > Seriously? This moves 6 trivial 1-line macros and one 6-line macro > (counting only the bodies, otherwise it is 1 1-line, 5 2-line, and 1 > 7-line macro) from one header file to a new header file with a possibly > misleading copyright notice and SPDX declaration. It is not clear to me > whether this tiny amount of mostly boilerplate code (do {…} while(0) > pattern, delegating to another macro while defaulting some arguments) is > even copyrightable at all. And the fix would be to get the copyright > notice and the SPDX declaration on that new header file fixed, not to ban > the whole project for such a tiny mistake. Kevin Kofler -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
