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Re: Bug#219163: ITP: synaptic-touchpad -- Synaptics TouchPad driver for XFree86



On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 10:03:14AM +1100, Daniel Stone wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 02:52:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:04:21PM +0100, Mattia Dongili wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 01:23:09PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > > > Er, actually, last I heard, the author was still looking into
> > > > relicensing it in a manner consistent with XFree86's requirements.
> > > > (They don't accept GPLed code.)
> > > 
> > > that's what he told me too. He also said he is still unable to contact
> > > every single contributor to confirm the license change.
> > 
> > Bummer.
> 
> There is one unreachable person; IIRC, he was a reasonably major
> contributor.

Double bummer.

> I was thinking about xfree86-driver-synaptics, or
> xfree86-driver-input-synaptics, but the last one is too unnecessarily
> longwinded. (I was going to package this as an XSF project, post-exams).

I thought about the latter as well.  It's not too long-winded if we
expect having input and video modules with identical names.

Is the XFree86 driver namespace subdivided in practice (i.e., in a
name-resolution sense), or merely cosmetically via directory layout?

-- 
G. Branden Robinson                |    Sometimes, getting your patch in is
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    just a matter of waiting for
branden@debian.org                 |    somebody else to reimplement it.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    -- Jonathan Corbet

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