On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 12:54:30PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-12-31 04:32:37 -0500, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > We need a URL to a source package, please.
>
> I added
>
> deb-src http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at/debian.uniklu/ sarge/uniklu/desktop main contrib non-free
>
> to my sources.list, commented out the other deb-src lines and did:
>
> dixsept:~> apt-get source xserver-xfree86
> Reading Package Lists... Done
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> Need to get 62.5MB of source archives.
> Get:1 http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at sarge/uniklu/desktop/main xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8.uk (dsc) [2435B]
> Get:2 http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at sarge/uniklu/desktop/main xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8.uk (tar) [59.1MB]
> Get:3 http://debian.uni-klu.ac.at sarge/uniklu/desktop/main xfree86 4.3.0.dfsg.1-8.uk (diff) [3349kB]
> Fetched 62.5MB in 38s (1625kB/s)
> dpkg-source: extracting xfree86 in xfree86-4.3.0.dfsg.1
Okay.
> > More precisely, what we need are patches (untainted by the XFree86 1.1
> > license) that will apply cleanly to our SVN trunk, and people willing to
> > test those patches.
>
> There's a patch debian/patches/990_i810_i915_from_4_4.diff but it
> could be tainted by the XFree86 1.1 license since it comes from 4.4
> (but the files don't mention the license, so I'm not sure -- they
> mention the authors, though: Alan Hourihane and Keith Whitwell).
If David Dawes has touched any files with a copyrightable modification,
then it is safe to assume that tainting has taken place, since he made a
public declaration on the subject:
Everything I do is covered by the 1.1 licence unless I explicitly state
otherwise.[1]
Marc La France has not, to my knowledge, made a similar declaration, but
given his feelings on the relicensing issue[2], I feel the safe course of
action is to assume that he feels as David Dawes.
[1] http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05959.html
[2] "XFree86 didn't start this. So I'd talk to your cohorts about their
justification for such costs. Somebody, somewhere, forgot a carry."
http://www.openpegasus.org/show_mail.tpl?source=L&listname=xorg_foundation&id=140
--
G. Branden Robinson | The more ridiculous a belief
Debian GNU/Linux | system, the higher the probability
branden@debian.org | of its success.
http://people.debian.org/~branden/ | -- Wayne R. Bartz
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