[compiz] Patchs criterias

[David Reveman]

On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 02:04 -0400, Quinn Storm wrote:
> I've wanted to avoid an "official fork" as long as possible, feeling
> that it could in the end work against everyone's best interest, but
> this all depends on the upstream (freedesktop.org/novell) developers.
> I realize their goals probably differ somewhat from mine / those of us
> who work through compiz.net, which has lead to the divergence.  If it
> comes down to it though, in the spirit of the GPL, I am not against
> managing my tree as a semi-fork (I'd still sync with updates from
> freedesktop cvs of course, as davidr and friends often commit important
> updates)  Also, I want to point out, another potential issue with the
> current freedesktop codebase is that (and this is NOT something I know
> for sure) the novell team MIGHT want to keep it dual-licensed, and not
> everyone wants to submit to something under those terms. (I myself am a
> GPL gal, but am somewhat flexible if it is necessary)

compiz is not dual-licensed.

The core of compiz and the plugins are MIT licensed. The
gnome-window-settings module and gnome-window-decorator are GPL
licensed.

-David