Re: [XFree86] Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license.

At 02:08 PM 2/14/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>mark kandianis wrote:
>>At 03:36 PM 2/14/2004 +0000, Chris Howells wrote:
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>>>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


it only matters when it takes affect dude, i guess that's something they 
haven't taught you yet in
school right?  have the folks keep paying the bill, you need all the help 
you can get.


mark.