On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Alan Coopersmith wrote: > Ms. Economou's mail client appears to be unable to quote properly.
Probably should upgrade (at least to pine ;-) > I wrote the original question to [EMAIL PROTECTED] several days ago, > ( http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05901.html ) > her response was the "now this was a joke right?" line. So I see (I've been rather busy this week, and looking down into forum wasn't my first thought). > David Dawes has indicated he is not - to determine the license of a file you > also need to check all the CVS commits to see if a license was stated or if it > was attributed to him (in which case, we are told to assume the XFree86 1.1 license). > http://www.mail-archive.com/devel%40xfree86.org/msg05906.html I did read that (and of course a lot more from various sources). > That would be Ms. Economou's description of X.Org today on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] > list: > http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-April/004400.html > > (Of course, it is quite ironic considering XFree86 started out by copying the > original X Consortium release and modifying it, which would seem to qualify it > as "copycat garbage" as well if you follow Ms. Economou's views on this subject > - fortunately, I don't think many people do.) Certainly. One of the X.org supporters this afternoon posted a comment stating that XFree86 has always shipped X.org's version of xterm. It's not clear to me whether the people who make comments such as that are a majority (too often it does seem so - but it would be nice if the discussion on forum didn't remind me too much of slashdot). (works both ways). -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
