Trademarks
Kaleb S. KEITHLEY
kaleb at keithley.org
Thu Mar 18 16:30:45 PST 2004
Egbert Eich wrote:
> Keith Packard writes:
> >
> > Around 16 o'clock on Mar 18, Egbert Eich wrote:
> >
> > > Are we sure we need to change CVS tags? They only suggest that these files
> > > where at one time in the XFree86 CVS.
> >
> > They suggest that the file in question came from XFree86. I'd sure like
> > to keep them around; perhaps what we need is a note above them indicating
> > what they mean, turning the 'this is XFree86' into a 'this part came from
> > XFree86'.
> >
>
> Hmmm. I started to delete them. Well, no problem, as long as I have
> a diff I can readd them.
> However they are currently broken. The version of cvs that's working
> cannot handle them (/usr/local/bin). The one that can handle them
> is altogether broken (/usr/bin) :-((
> I'd appreciate if somebody would take a look at that.
I think this is going a bit overboard.
For some files they definitely need to be kept to prove that we have
the-last-version-before-the-new-license.
They're less important for other files, but if you're going to remove or
alter them then you're going to end up touching just about every file in
the tree.
--
Kaleb
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