Re: Patches from XFree86

[Thomas Dickey <dickey@saltmine.radix.net>]

Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> wrote:

> Please be careful with patches from XFree86 -- these are now often tagged 
> indicating that the patch is covered by the XFree86 1.1 license even while 
> the files patched are not.  I don't know the legal status of files patched 
> like this, but it seems best to get fixes from upstream and bypass the 
> questionable license quagmire entirely.

Perhaps you can point to a specific example.  The only mentions I can
recall of copyright changes have been to the Xserver area.

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