On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:43:42PM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 02:42:57PM +0100, Sven Luther wrote: > > Branden, > > > > Again, you do great job in following the licence stuff, and > > felicitations to you and to the rest of the X strike force for the soon > > to be upcoming 4.3.0-1 package. > > Just my luck that when I finish the TODO list, some security holes show > up that have me embargoed. Oh well.
Yeah, altough i would go ahead with the upload to unstable, and send the 4.2.1 security fixes trough the testing-proposed-updates queue. But you know best how to handle this. > > I have an interogation about the aim of this mail though. You are > > clearly following up on a mail from [EMAIL PROTECTED], but in this > > response you don't CC them. Is this willed from your part, as a way to > > discuss this issue without XFree86 and then inform them about this ? Or > > maybe it was only a mistake from your part and you forgot them in your > > CC list ? Or maybe some other reason ? Could you please clarify your > > position on this point, and eventually forward this list to the > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list too ? > > The reason is simple; I'm not subsribed to the XFree86 forum list, and I > generally try to avoid sending unsolicited mail to lists to which I > don't subscribe. Particularly in this case, as redistribution of my > message is not restricted (it was sent to 3 public forums already). Yes, altough notice that the original mails were forwarded from there. > Moreover, given David Dawes's statement that GPL compatibility simply > isn't on the XFree86 Project, Inc.'s radar screen as far as its Well, this might be so, but David is not the only one concerned here, and i think the discussion you quoted and where he responded to RMS has been rather courteous (i am sure you don't say that in english) upto now. > licensing policy is concerned, I'm not sure the forum list needs to be > bothered with my analysis. The XFree86 Project, Inc., might not regard > any of the issues I raised as a problem, and if so, there's really no > point wasting their time with them. Still, it is a usefull entry point, and the [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the natural discussion place for issues related to the XFree86 Project, including licencing issues. > You may feel differently, however, and there is nothing stopping you from > redistributing my message to the forum list if you think that would be > productive. It was already done, altough with some kind of subpar email client which fully butchered everything. I wanted to ask you before you did that though. Friendly, Sven Luther
