Re: Question on X and new license...
On Wed, 2004-03-03 at 03:52, David Martínez Moreno wrote:
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> El Lunes, 23 de Febrero de 2004 05:43, Branden Robinson escribió:
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> > * Code that forms part of the XFree86 SDK, a driver development kit
> > (which there has been some work to package for Debian) *is* under the
> > X-Oz license, and would prohibit the development of GPL-licensed
> > drivers for the XFree86 X server.
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> [...]
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> > (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.)
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> I fully oppose to the SDK statement. It is unacceptable.
Because....
> My opinion.
Certainly not Uday Hussein's.
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Jefferson, LA USA
In 1929, when the Great Depresion hit, while all the other
tabulating companies retrenched, Thomas Watson Sr. insisted that
IBM's factories stay open and R&D spending increase. Thus, in
1935 when FDR signed the Social Security Act, and businesses and
gov't had a huge need for tabulating/sorting machines, IBM was in
position to dominate the industry, and did so for the next 45
years.
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