Re: Question on X and new license...
Dominique Dumont wrote:
> 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 ...)
They don't want people to be able to legally remove the advertisement.
wt
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