Re: Question on X and new license...
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 17:49, Warren Turkal wrote:
> 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.
And that violates the GPL's "no restrictions" clause.
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