Re: Question on X and new license...

[Dominique Dumont <dominique.dumont@freesbee.fr>]

Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:

> (Fellow debian-x subscribers: I'd like your feedback on this message, as
> once debian-legal has made its decision regarding the DFSG-freeness of
> the X-Oz license, I'd like to re-purpose it, perhaps as a mail to
> debian-devel-announce and/or as a position statement to placed on the X
> Strike Force news page.  If any contributor to Debian's X packaging has
> any objection to the above statements, please speak up.)

Looks like the issue revolves arounf the advertisement of Xfree86.

OK, I may be naive, but could we suggest Xfree's owners that they can
handle their own advertising without the X-oz licence: When Xfree
starts, there's always 1 oe 2 seconds of a grey mesh. Why don't they
place their advertising here. The advert could last one or 2 seconds
or the time required for [xkw]dm to start.

This way, they would have their advertising without changing the
licenses or impacting Xfree developers.

Cheers

(I really hope not to start a flame war ...)