Re: [XFree86] Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.
Harold L Hunt II <[email protected]>
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mark kandianis wrote: > At 03:36 PM 2/14/2004 +0000, Chris Howells wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Friday 13 February 2004 20:50, David Dawes wrote: >> > This begs a couple of questions that I have yet to see answered: >> >> OK... so if you don't fully understand the consequences of changing the >> license, I'm somewhat fascinated and intrigued as to why it has _already_ >> been changed, rather than, say, making a proposal and letting people >> comment >> on it. >> >> - -- >> Cheers, Chris Howells -- [email protected], [email protected] > > > > it wasn't changed until last night after a two-week notice. > i think you are a little late to the discussion, but it's good > to clear these things up anyhow. Actually, you are late to the discussion. In fact, why don't you just not participate in this discussion since you have clearly not been following the events as they have unfolded. The license change was first checked into CVS on 2003/12/12, not last night: http://cvsweb.xfree86.org/cvsweb/xc/programs/Xserver/hw/xfree86/common/xf86AutoConfig.c.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&f=h Revision 1.3 / (download) - annotate - [select for diffs], Fri Dec 12 00:39:16 2003 UTC (2 months ago) by dawes Branch: MAIN CVS Tags: xf-4_3_99_902, HEAD Changes since 1.2: +31 -15 lines Diff to previous 1.2 (colored) update licence Harold