Re: Bug#512703: xorg libvnc.so server extension missing in lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Ola Lundqvist
Hi all Thanks for valuable input. I have plans to work on a tigervnc package but as you have probably understood that kind of work will take a lot of effort and available time is rather sparse for me now... Any help on creating such a package is warmly welcome. Best regards, // Ola On Fri, Aug

Re: Bug#512703: xorg libvnc.so server extension missing in lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Small
Julien Cristau wrote: I suppose it'd be nice to have the Xvnc server, and libvnc.so as part of upstream xorg, but I've no idea if that has even been considered by the parties involved! Isn't the vnc code under the gpl? Err, yes - good point it's GPLv2 - so that'd that one out of the q

Re: Bug#512703: xorg libvnc.so server extension missing in lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Julien Cristau
On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 10:32:47 +0100, Tim Small wrote: > I suppose it'd be nice to have the Xvnc server, and libvnc.so as > part of upstream xorg, but I've no idea if that has even been > considered by the parties involved! > Isn't the vnc code under the gpl? Cheers, Julien -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Bug#512703: xorg libvnc.so server extension missing in lenny

2009-08-14 Thread Tim Small
Ola Lundqvist wrote: Yes other distributions has solved this problem by simply switching to other alternative vnc implementations. Just a bit more feedback on this - Redhat, and OpenSolaris, amongst others are switching from RealVNC to tigervnc, as RealVNC seem to have dropped their opensourc