On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:01:02PM -0700, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > georgina o. economou wrote: > >I notice many of the affected files do not bear the license notice > >mentioned in the checkin notice. Is that intentional? Will everyone > >investigating the license that applies to a file now have to check > >every CVS commit log entry for that file as well as the file itself > >to find out which license applies? > > > >now this was a joke right? you got a great sense of humour there.
Some of the quoting appears to be lost in this (Coopersmith's question, and - I don't see it in my email - Economou's apparent followup). > Yep, I must have been kidding myself to believe the XFree86 License web page > when it said "Refer to each source file for specific licence details" or that > it would continue under the "each file lists the license covering it" policy > that X and most other multi-license open source projects have always used. I'm playing by those rules. > But then I suppose since I help people produce "copycat garbage", you would > say I have no place even looking at XFree86 anymore. hmm - who are you quoting? -- Thomas E. Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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