Tomohiro KUBOTA writes:
> However, softwares of GNU Project will have to be assigned to FSF.
> (Note the difference between merely GPL-ed softwares and GNU Project
> softwares.) This FSF's way is to guard itself legally.
This is not true in this generality. There are packages in the GNU
project whose copyright stays with the authors (like GNU clisp). There
are also packages in the GNU project whose copyright is assigned to
the FSF (like GNU GCC and glibc).
The most important point for software that is part of the GNU project
is that it cooperates well with the rest of the system, i.e. most
importantly that it supports --help and --version command line option,
uses GNU infrastructure like autoconf where possible, imposes no
arbitrary limitations on the users, and mentions the GNU project on
their homepage.
> GPL-ed softwares cannot be included in XFree86 source tree, as
> Juliusz said.
>
> Thus, I think Juliusz's way (luit in X11 license) is reasonable.
Still it seems strange to put a tty based filter program in the X11
distribution. This means that people who use a console and have no X
installed cannot use it.
Bruno
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