Contributed by jose on from the incompatability dept.
Read here for the actual email: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=107696705911864&w=2
Seems this is becoming a fad: http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/131223.shtml?tid=104&tid=189 "
By the way, some of the latest XF4 imports have the commit line, "Import XFree86-current of 2004/02/13, minus files with new license."
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By Anonymous Coward () on
What's going to happen from here, OpenBSD forks XF4 and perhaps calls it OpenXF86? If so, I think this would be wasted work for OpenBSD if they do it and other OSS projects do their own thing(s).
Couldn't/shouldn't the groups all come together and work on a common fork that's compatible with the previous XF86 license? ie, something like freedesktop.org or whatever else is already out there?
Sorry if these questions sound dumb. And no, I'm not trying to troll or start a flame war so please don't take this the wrong way.
Regards.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
If the worst comes to pass, I can't imagine that the OpenBSD project could hope to sustain and a update a project as broad as XFree86. It is very much a project in its own right. In a way this is too bad, since I think the OpenBSD project would be a pretty good custodian of the technology. Collaboration between all the dissatisfied groups is really what will be needed IMHO.
I think the big danger here is that the Linux distros will go with a GPL'd xserver leaving the BSDs high and dry.
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By Chris Waters () xtifr@debian.org on mailto:xtifr@debian.org
If any good comes out of this whole mess, it may well be an unprecedented degree of cooperation between the Linux and BSD communities. Forking XFree86 is going to be a monster task, and we'll probably need everyone.
[*] Debian is best known for its community-based Linux systems, but is branching out into BSD and Hurd systems too.
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By Anonymous Coward () on
Glad to hear there is no intention of changing license if it comes to a fork, since clearly the BSDs would be on the losing end of such a change. I'm still hoping it proves to be resolvable issue though -- such a waste in duplication of effort otherwise; and it is difficult enough getting driver info for *one* windowing system.
By Anonymous Coward () on