> But if OSS, X-Free and QT all operate along similar lines, thats 3, there
Umm, no, XFree86 does *not* work that way. Though they do release non-source timebombed betas, they always release full-source "real" releases. You can ignore the betas (as debian does, I mean they are *betas* after all.) But when 3.3 comes out, everyone will have the same up-to-date sources and binaries. Nothing similar to OSS and QT at all. As for OSS -- I had the impression that if I submitted patches to make the modules *accept* command line arguments, they wouldn't be included. But yeah, if they're straight GPL'ed that's good enough; I could still distribute such patches even if they weren't included. (and actually, everything in the *kernel* sources looks fine; I think I was probably interpreting stuff that I saw on the usslite website. So strictly speaking we're back to *one* bad example, which is QT...) -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .