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Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)
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Jérôme Marant |
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Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch) |
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Mon, 4 Oct 2004 17:55:02 +0200 |
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Quoting Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
> >From now on, Emacs will have such a problem with upcoming XFree86
> and Xorg releases.
>
> There are several variants of XFree86 now, but I have heard that most
> of them are not likely to be used much. For instance, people told me
> that the one called XFree86 is not likely to be used much.
Debian currently ships XFree86 4.3 plus patches that were applied to the
the XFree86 before the license change.
> 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.
Cheers,
--
Jérôme Marant
Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Frank Schmitt, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Jan D., 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Andreas Schwab, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Jérôme Marant, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Andreas Schwab, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Jan D., 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Andreas Schwab, 2004/10/03