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Re: Patches from XFree86



On Wed, Mar 31, 2004 at 09:32:28PM -0000, Thomas Dickey wrote:
> Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> wrote:
> > Over the past 2--3 months, I and others have tried asking David Dawes,
> > and Sue from X-Oz Technologies, Inc., for clarification of several
> > issues related to the new licenses used in the XFree86 source
> > distribution, and these efforts have failed.
> 
> Most of the words I've seen have been asking him to change it.  Here/there
> is a request for clarification, but still with a slant toward change.  I'm
> curious where all this will lead, but on the whole I find David Dawes more
> predictable than the others (so far).
> 
> It's likely that a well-defined question (for a yes/no answer) would get
> some results.  And as noted before, the appropriate place to ask questions
> is not in a newsgroup, but in the forum mailing list.  (I'm not subscribed
> to that - don't like interminable arguments ;-).

Well, what do you think of these questions[1]?  Of the eight, five are
yes/no questions.

> I think I've read most of this (it's possible I'm overlooking something ;-)

[1] http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200403/msg00032.html

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G. Branden Robinson                |    If you make people think they're
Debian GNU/Linux                   |    thinking, they'll love you; but if
branden@debian.org                 |    you really make them think, they'll
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |    hate you.            -- Don Marquis

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