Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2004-04-11 09:28, Curtis Rey wrote:
It is my hope that X.org will be able to rectify some of these dificiencies - though to a degree XF86 has addressed these as well - but not to the degree that is could be and I believe that the political arena at XF86 is the primary reason that we are seeing this (excuse my bluntness) "Brain Dead" license clause that has the rest of the community up in arms.
Excuse my ignorance O:-)
What is that license problem, in brief?
(If there is a link explaining that, and why the X project has divided, I'm interested).
There was an explanation on a number of sites, lwn.net, slashdot.org and linuxtoday.com etc. A good place to start is http://www.newsforge.com/software/04/01/30/1433253.shtml. The distros including BSD were not happy with the license change and even Alan Cox asked them not to distribute any of his contributed stuff. The BSD guy said he tried talking to them, but they stuck to their guns and eventually refused to talk to him. X.org and another group had already split off because they didn't like XFree86's attitudes and management, e.g they thought they should be open to suggestions from KDE and GNOME, but they were intent on doing their own thing and to hell with everyone else - XFree86 seems a closed group and couldn't care what difficulty they cause. Membership seemed to be closed and decisions taken without consultation with key members, so some guys left, they disbanded and reformed - just like foxes in the hen house swearing not to kill any more chickens I suppose. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.