glib dependency for the X Server

[Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman)]

On Mon, 3 Apr 2006 11:41:13 +0300 Daniel Stone <daniel at freedesktop.org> babbled:

> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 11:15:59AM +0200, Erwin Rol wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 18:46 +1000, Russell Shaw wrote:
> > > Erwin Rol wrote:
> > > > What about the GNU C-library, that is LGPL. Does that make it
> > > > "unacceptable" for you to use Xorg on Linux ?
> > > 
> > > The C lib is mostly generic functionality that can be easily
> > > found from other sources and under various licences. Glib is
> > > a one-off specific api, which would force the one and only
> > > Glib to be required.
> > 
> > Well one could always rewrite glib (or the parts that would be needed)
> > if one really needs a completely closed source system which includes
> > Xorg :-)
> 
> Yes, because writing our own build system worked so well.
> 
> X.Org is not an OS vendor.  We do not build toolchains.  Nor build
> systems.
> 
> Every hour that we spend maintaining this sort of stuff is an hour that
> could be better spent actually, y'know, working on X.

PTAW! who would want anyone to do that? :):):)


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