On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Oz Dror wrote:
> Is anyone going to port the X11R6.4 as a non-free package?
I don't think so. X being big as it is, you'd need a large group of
developers to maintain and develop an XFree86-like port of X11R6.4. Those
people could spend their time much bet
Is anyone going to port the X11R6.4 as a non-free package?
-Oz
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Marco Anglesio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >From comp.os.linux.development.system
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> >This is from the official announce of X11 R6.4:
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> > With the release of X11R6.4 there will be a commercial use licensing
> > fee associated with the X Window
Hi,
>>"Alex" == <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Alex> Turning the other cheek won't do any bad to us.
On the contrary. The sting on the cheeks, the bruises
bespeaking of smashed capillaries, are a mere token of what happens
if you do not take a stand.
Alex> Turning to destructive positio
> Alex> let's not start the war, please... May be it is time to realize
> Alex> the existence of "non-free" software and try to live in peace
> Alex> with that, not try to ignore as much as possible its existence,
> Alex> adjust our policy and practice to the changing
> Alex> world. Proprietary sof
Hi,
>>"Alex" == Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Ray> I suspect that the result of making the "Open Group"'s X non-free
Ray> is that development of that version will start to fall behind the
Ray> free version quickly. If the commercial folks don't want the
Ray> freeware folks to have the
Alex Yukhimets <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> let's not start the war, please...
Pot. Kettle.
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> I suspect that the result of making the "Open Group"'s X non-free is that
> development of that version will start to fall behind the free version
> quickly. If the commercial folks don't want the freeware folks to have their
> contributions at all, it is very likely the freeware folks don't want
> IIRC, a current topic on debian-user has been that non-free works are not
> included in the official debian distribution; if X11R6.4 becomes non-free,
> would that mean that X11R6.4 would no longer be distributed with Debian
> (at least not on official CD-ROM's)?
>
> IM
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Marco Anglesio wrote:
> How will this influence the composition of future versions of Debian?
> IIRC, a current topic on debian-user has been that non-free works are not
> included in the official debian distribution; if X11R6.4 be
>From comp.os.linux.development.system
>This is from the official announce of X11 R6.4:
>
> With the release of X11R6.4 there will be a commercial use licensing
> fee associated with the X Window System technology. This new licensing
> structure will continue to provide the res
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