On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 08:25:23PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 04:40:56AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > > On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:01:17PM +1000, Daniel Stone wrote: > > > There is an evdev driver in 4.3.0-0pre1v1, which has just hit experimental > > > today, and that Synaptics driver is scheduled for pre1v2. > > > > You didn't tell me the driver was under the GPL. > > > > This would be the first GPLed code we've introduced into the XFree86 > > codebase. > > Into the codebase, yes. All our mods are, however, GPLed. Only that which is explicitly licensed thus. Plus, what is GPLed in our XFree86 packages aren't "mods", but package infrastructure and wrapper-type things that are inessential to the package's essential functionality. > > I am not sure that is wise. It might be better to have this thing > > packaged separately since there is no way it will ever end up upstream. > > Your call. The point appears to have been invalidated by upstream reconsiderations of licensing. -- G. Branden Robinson | Somebody once asked me if I thought Debian GNU/Linux | sex was dirty. I said, "It is if branden@debian.org | you're doing it right." http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Woody Allen
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