Xorg Now GPL??

Marc Balmer marc at msys.ch
Wed Aug 27 10:25:18 PDT 2008


* Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> Marc Balmer wrote:
> > * Xavier Bestel wrote:
> >> On Wed, 2008-08-27 at 09:34 -0500, Pat Kane wrote:
> >>> On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:43 PM, vehemens <vehemens at verizon.net> wrote:
> >>>> After reading what's been happening on dri-devel, I have to ask if the plan is
> >>>> to GPL a major component of the xserver?
> >>> I hope not, that would almost surely cause a fork.
> >> Your opinion. Not widely shared.
> > 
> > shared here.  a GPLed X is inacceptable.
> 
> I don't even see the point.  I don't hate the GPL, but what's wrong with 
> the current license?

With the current, MIT, license, nothing is wrong, of course.

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