VNC on Xorg?

[Alex Deucher]

On 1/16/07, Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch at suse.de> wrote:
> 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).

Since Xorg is modular now, why couldn't we add this as a separate
module that's GPL licensed rather than MIT (unless of course xf4vnc
needs to be integrated into the xserver; I'm not familiar with the
code).  Then packagers could choose to include or not-include the
module.  Isn't vnc.so just basically a DDX?

Alex

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> Stefan
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