Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)

[Jérôme Marant]

Selon Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:

>     > I don't know what Xorg is.  Does Xorg have the same licence change
>     > that XFree86 has?  All else being equal, we would prefer to recommend
>     > releases which don't have that license change.
>
>     Xorg is a fork of the Xfree86 tree which does not have licensing
> problems.
>     It is maintained by freedesktop.org. Everyone is going in this direction.
>
> In that case, we do care about it.
>
> Why did they make the change?  Is it a clear improvement, in general?

Yes, it is a clear improvement for people using multiple keyboard
layouts.

> In other words, should we ask them to revert it, or should we accept
> it as an improvement in X?

The latter. Jan D. did some tests and commited the patch. As far as I know,
it is backward compatible. Jan, do you confirm?


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Jérôme Marant