On Mon, May 31, 2004 at 09:34:12PM -0700, John Gilmore wrote: > The Debian X FAQ is conspicuously silent about the whole X licensing > issue. This is due more to inertia on my part than anything else. > It does mention X.Org but its commentary dates from 1999, > saying that X.Org supervised the X11R6.5.1 release. Right; I've known this history section has needed an update for a while. > The FAQ also says the XFree86 Project "release their X servers under > licensing terms identical to that of the freely available X sources". Yeah, not true anymore... > It concludes, "XFree86 is thus the superset of the X Window System > that is used by the Debian GNU/Linux system." That is still true at present. > I presume from occasional comments on this list that the plan is > (someday soon) to switch everything over to base the Debian packages > on the X.Org releases. Well, Daniel Stone insists that's not true. > If so, I merely suggest putting a sentence or paragraph about those > plans in the FAQ, and removing the no longer accurate comments about > XFree86. > > If not, I'm merely confused -- and perhaps the FAQ should say > something rather than nothing. I entirely agree. Say, does anyone on this list feel like "digesting" the mails that have been sent on the subject? I don't recall most of the mails I've sent about it provoking much controversy. -- G. Branden Robinson | Every aristocracy that has ever Debian GNU/Linux | existed has behaved, in all branden@debian.org | essential points, exactly like a http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | small mob. -- G.K. Chesterton
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