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On Wed, 2010-12-29 at 17:13 +0000, Daniel Stone wrote:
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Hi,
On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 08:45:10AM -0800, Alan Coopersmith wrote:
> On 12/29/10 08:20 AM, Tiago Vignatti wrote:
> > Are we releasing only MIT based stuff within katamari?
>
> Yes, with one known exception, the entire katamari is MIT licensed.
>
> (The exception being the Linux portion of the xf86-input-keyboard driver,
> which has code that someone noticed was exactly the same as a GPL licensed
> file - but I don't think anyone ever asked the author, who was a XFree86
> contributor, if he had offered it to XFree86 under their MIT-style license,
> and just assumed it was copied from the GPL sources without permission.
> I'm occasionally tempted to solve it via "git rm src/lnx_*" and adding a
> "if $target_os = "linux" then echo Use evdev already" to configure.ac, but
> haven't yet cared enough to do so, since it doesn't affect any mainstream
> distro of Linux (which use evdev) or non-Linux (which don't use lnx_*.c).)
Oooh, that would actually be quite nice.
> > if build.sh matches exactly what gets released in X katamari then this patch
> > probably is invalid. Are we doing in such way?
>
> It does not - it builds a number of apps we still maintain, but do not include
> in the katamaris, as well as some dependencies like mesa that are completely
> outside the X.Org git repos & tarball releases.
Right. I'd forgotten that the Synaptics relicensing eventually went
through, so my R-b was based on build.sh already building GPL modules
anyway.
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Anyone has any idea why the xrestop repo is listed under "X.Org Applications"?<BR>
And described as "X.org xrestop application." ?<BR>
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I am still puzzled as to what "belongs" to X.Org or not. Or even if this concept applies.<BR>
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Cheers,
Daniel
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