On Tue, 23 Apr 2002, Alan wrote:

> > xmatrix: of course it's the stupid copyright
> 
> If this is correct, then someone is stretching copyright paranoia a little too 
> far.  

During the old days, it's pretty dangerous. When things
settle down, people tend to ignore it. But if it's brought
out again, then you're doomed.

> Are there any other distributions that disable this one? 

Dunno.

> Why are there other undisabled screensavers based on films? (Starwars and 
> lament, for example.)

Not sure, have to ask mdksoft people here.

> > extrusion: gle is in contrib (and things on main
> >            distro shouldn't depend on contrib stuff),
> >        and gle is not used by anything else for now.
> >        Perhaps adding a toggle on xscreensaver
> >        RPM is a good thing. But xscreensaver may
> >        have some bigger change (choose either the
> >        official xscreensaver or gnome-branched one),
> >        so it's for fcrozat to consider it...
> 
> Or just add a "xscreensaver-extrusion" rpm in contrib.

I'd guess it's quite impossible here, due to complications
in compiling it, but not 100% sure (haven't checked it).

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