Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Keith Packard
Around 15 o'clock on Feb 11, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In general I have some difficulty with the argument > > XFree doesn't use ABC, we have been using XYZ for years. > Therefore ABC doesn't matter to anyone anymore. Sure, in general that argument is quite weak. However, it's also the case t

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread mcnichol
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:24:48 -0500 (EST) > From: "Mike A. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license > > On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >Date: Wed,

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:20:08 -0600 >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII >Subject:

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread mcnichol
U... In general I have some difficulty with the argument XFree doesn't use ABC, we have been using XYZ for years. Therefore ABC doesn't matter to anyone anymore. Dan > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license > From: Ke

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Keith Packard
Around 14 o'clock on Feb 11, Branden Robinson wrote: > The DFSG-incompatibility of xc/lib/font/fontfile/decompress.c is more > serious. Disabling .pcf.Z font file support shouldn't be a significant issue; XFree86 has used .pcf.gz files for many years. We can either stub-out the functions in de

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:11:48PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:53:49PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:43:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:42:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > > Branden, > > > > > > > >

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > B) Copyright 1985, 1986 The Regents of the University of California. >All rights reserved. > >This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by >James A. Woods, derived from original work by Spencer Thomas

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:43:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:42:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Branden, > > > > Again, you do great job in following the licence stuff, and > > felicitations to you and to the rest of the X strike force for the soon > > to be up

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 07:53:49PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:43:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:42:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > > Branden, > > > > > > Again, you do great job in following the licence stuff, and > > > felicitatio

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Branden Robinson
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:42:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > Branden, > > Again, you do great job in following the licence stuff, and > felicitations to you and to the rest of the X strike force for the soon > to be upcoming 4.3.0-1 package. Just my luck that when I finish the TODO list, some s

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Leon Shiman
Sven Luther wrote: >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license > >On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:10:04PM -0500,

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-11 Thread Sven Luther
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 05:00:25PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:10:04PM -0500, Leon Shiman wrote: > > - Begin Forwarded Message - > > From: David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-10 Thread Mike A. Harris
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Branden Robinson wrote: [SNIP] >My findings follow. Please feel free to ignore the references >to DFSG-freeness, which is a concern primarily for the Debian >project, and my footnote discussion of unpacking a Debian source >package. [SNIP] >If this next part bores you, skip t

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-10 Thread Kendall Bennett
Branden Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The path to clearing away GPL-incompatibilties due to the BSD > advertising clause for the entire XFree86 source tree (as of > XFree86 4.3.0, anyway) seems fairly short. Given that, it seems a > shame to entrench a similar incompatibility both broadly

Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license

2004-02-10 Thread Branden Robinson
On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 01:10:04PM -0500, Leon Shiman wrote: > - Begin Forwarded Message - > From: David Dawes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: Richard Stallman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [forum] GPL-incompatible license [...] > Basically, XFree86 li