On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 17:13 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:45:10AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > > On 12/29/10 08:20 AM, Tiago Vignatti wrote: > > > Are we releasing only MIT based stuff within katamari? > > > > Yes, with one known exception, the entire katamari is MIT licensed. > > > > (The exception being the Linux portion of the xf86-input-keyboard driver, > > which has code that someone noticed was exactly the same as a GPL licensed > > file - but I don't think anyone ever asked the author, who was a XFree86 > > contributor, if he had offered it to XFree86 under their MIT-style license, > > and just assumed it was copied from the GPL sources without permission. > > I'm occasionally tempted to solve it via "git rm src/lnx_*" and adding a > > "if $target_os = "linux" then echo Use evdev already" to configure.ac, but > > haven't yet cared enough to do so, since it doesn't affect any mainstream > > distro of Linux (which use evdev) or non-Linux (which don't use lnx_*.c).) > > Oooh, that would actually be quite nice. > > > > if build.sh matches exactly what gets released in X katamari then this > > > patch > > > probably is invalid. Are we doing in such way? > > > > It does not - it builds a number of apps we still maintain, but do not > > include > > in the katamaris, as well as some dependencies like mesa that are completely > > outside the X.Org git repos & tarball releases. > > Right. I'd forgotten that the Synaptics relicensing eventually went > through, so my R-b was based on build.sh already building GPL modules > anyway. >
Anyone has any idea why the xrestop repo is listed under "X.Org Applications"? And described as "X.org xrestop application." ? I am still puzzled as to what "belongs" to X.Org or not. Or even if this concept applies. > Cheers, > Daniel > _______________________________________________ > xorg-devel@lists.x.org: X.Org development > Archives: http://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-devel > Info: http://lists.x.org/mailman/listinfo/xorg-devel
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