On Sun, Feb 01, 2004 at 04:27:46PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 09:03:22PM -0500, Peter Constantinidis wrote: > > I read in the news today that the release of X 4.4 will have a new > > license that requires an advertising clause. As a result, it seems > > likely that Debian will not be able to carry it. > > > > Therefore it looks like this brouhaha will be quickly resolved by X > > 4.3 or a cvs fork of X 4.3.999 being the last version Debian packages > > until such a time as the alternative forks by Keith Packard, et al. > > are ready for deployment. > > > > So I'm thinking that this probably means there is no problem anymore > > about who did what, or who will be working on what. Simply because > > there will be no more versions of the regular XFree86 in Debian after > > 4.3 is uploaded. A non-Xfree86 package can also indicate a new > > maintainer. > > I would be disappointed if people thought that moving away from XFree86 > was a good excuse to throw away the wealth of experience found in the > people who've been working on XFree86 in Debian for years. Well, I *did* solicit feedback as to whether people thought my services in particular were still required in this area. Mr. Constantinidis's assessment of that seems clear. -- G. Branden Robinson | The software said it required Debian GNU/Linux | Windows 3.1 or better, so I branden@debian.org | installed Linux. http://people.debian.org/~branden/ |
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