Thomas Dickey wrote:
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).
Ms. Economou's mail client appears to be unable to quote properly.
I wrote the original question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] several days ago,
( http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05901.html )
her response was the "now this was a joke right?" line.
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.
David Dawes has indicated he is not - to determine the license of a file you
also need to check all the CVS commits to see if a license was stated or if it
was attributed to him (in which case, we are told to assume the XFree86 1.1 license).
http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05906.html
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?
That would be Ms. Economou's description of X.Org today on the [EMAIL PROTECTED]
list:
http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-April/004400.html
(Of course, it is quite ironic considering XFree86 started out by copying the
original X Consortium release and modifying it, which would seem to qualify it
as "copycat garbage" as well if you follow Ms. Economou's views on this subject
- fortunately, I don't think many people do.)
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-Alan Coopersmith- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
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