glib dependency for the X Server

Matthieu Herrb matthieu.herrb at laas.fr
Mon Apr 3 04:22:03 PDT 2006


Erwin Rol wrote:

> 
> Exactly, so just use glib, and let the people that really want a closed
> source Xorg setup rewrite glib with a different license. That way the
> Xorg developers can now focus on Xorg, since glib is here now. And AFAIK
> the LGPL does not cause any licensing problems in combination with
> X/MIT. 

It does not cause any direct conflict, but it causes packaging problems, 
  as noticed in:
<http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software_2fLicenseStrawman>

If this is no longer the official position of X.Org wrt licensing, 
please tell us.

-- 
Matthieu Herrb
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