VNC on Xorg?

[Stefan Dirsch]

On Tue, Jan 16, 2007 at 12:57:31PM -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On 1/11/07, Alan Hourihane <alanh at fairlite.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> >On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 17:14 +0000, Colin Guthrie wrote:
> >> Alan Hourihane wrote:
> >> > On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 08:50 -0800, Deron Johnson wrote:
> >> >> Does anybody know of a version of VNC which is based on Xorg 6.9 or
> >> >> greater? For example, Tight VNC is based on an ancient version 
> >(XFree86).
> >> >
> >> > xf4vnc at xf4vnc.sf.net
> >> >
> >> > It has both modular and monolithic trees.
> >>
> >> Forgive me for being stupid, but I couldn't see any releases since 
> >2004....
> >>
> >> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=48178
> >
> >There just hasn't been a new release of late. The code is in CVS though
> >ready for one. I'll probably do that soon.
> 
> Is there any plan to merge this into mainline Xorg? That'd be a nice
> win. I've been pulling the xf4vnc CVS and patching into xorg-server,
> but it'd be really nice to just have it there.

I'm afraid this will never happen since VNC is licensed under GPL, so
it can't be integrated into X.Org (X11/MIT license).

Best regards,
Stefan

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