Re: [Fwd: XV license]
On Thu, 2 May 2002, Matt Taggart wrote:
>
> Dale Scheetz writes...
>
> > On Tue, 30 Apr 2002, George Kraft IV wrote:
> >
> > > It has been brought to my attention that we may have a licensing issue with
> > > xv(1) in our application battery. I have written the upstream author, but
> > I
> > > have not received a response. Could someone take the action item of
> > > investigating & resolving the license issue?
> > >
> > Is there some reason not to replace it with a "free" program, like the
> > Gimp?
>
> Well we should be adding lots of stuff to the application battery. Adding
> the Gimp would be great but a lot of work due to the huge list of
> dependencies. No one has gotten around to it yet. If anyone wants to
> volunteer work on gimp that would be great.
>
> I think xv was picked because it was a non-free application with few
> dependencies which provides a simple propriatary ISV application example.
> Maybe it was a poor choice...
Now I'm a bit confused ;-)
The choice was made purposfully to use a non-free application, but now
we find the license isn't suitable?
I think we got what we paid for ;-)
Luck,
Dwarf
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