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Re: Potential future licensing issues with X.org (code merged from XFree86)



On Sun, May 16, 2004 at 04:04:10PM -0400, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> I started thinking about whether it's reasonable to
> switch to the X.org tree for a future Debian release, before all the
> modular trees are ready.  Also, the modular trees are likely to merge
> stuff from the monolithic tree, so it seemed important to clear this stuff up.
> 
> Unfortunately, X.org merged from XFree86 4.4.0 before the release
> of X11R6.7.0.  Meaning potential license issues with code coming from the
> X.org tree.  :-P

Replying from my PDA is hard, so I'll just briefly say that I have one
hundred per cent confidence in the tree as it stands, and that moving to
6.7.0 is pointless and a waste of time.

-- 
Daniel Stone                                                <daniels@debian.org>
Debian: the universal operating system                     http://www.debian.org

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