Re: Bootstrapping X.Org (was Call Monday 24 Jan 2005)

Daniel Stone <daniel-rLtY4a/8tF1rovVCs/[email protected]> Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:05:32 +1100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.freedesktop.release-wranglers
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On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 09:59:44PM +0100, Matthieu Herrb wrote:
> Daniel Stone wrote:
> >Would the top-level Makefile thing, or jhbuild, satisfy your concern here?
> 
> Using jhbuild does not satisfy my concerns which are to make sure that 
> the X.Org tree can be distibuted under a MIT/BSD-style license, and that 
> X can be built and distibuted as part of the base installation of OpenBSD.
> 
> Jhbuild is depending on python, which is not part of the base OpenBSD 
> system and has a license that can become a problem for people who want 
> to binaries.

My understanding of the *BSD ports was that you guys had Makefiles
which controlled the building of each specific module, so surely you
could use those, no?  I was suggesting jhbuild as a convenience for
end users.

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