VNC on Xorg?

[Kevin Downey]

On 1/18/07, Deron Johnson <Deron.Johnson at sun.com> wrote:
> Is there any licensing issue with writing from scratch one's own VNC
> client which talks
> RFB to the VNC server? Is RFB an open protocol?
>
> Kevin Downey wrote:
>
> >
> > well the original client is under the gpl so all the derivative works
> > are as well.  I think if someone wrote a client/server from scratch it
> > could be MIT licensed and then possibly put the tree (not that I am
> > volunteering)
> >
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I am not a lawyer, but I think that unless the protocol is patented
somehow, its fair game. sort of like Microsoft and samba
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