When AIX used to ship Adobe DPS, the default xinitrc script
would run a separate little client that showed the Adobe
banner.
So it wasn't actually the Xserver that took care of that.
Dan
> Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 01:01:42 -0400
> From: Alan Coopersmith <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: [forum] License issue, and a possible solution
> To: [email protected]
> Organization: Sun Microsystems
> Reply-To: [email protected]
>
> Vincent wrote:
> > So far as I know, X servers do not pop up
> > windows or splash screens attributing third party authors. At least
> > not that I have ever seen.
>
> Actually, the Solaris Xsun server does - specifically when it loads it
> puts up an Adobe PostScript logo to acknowledge the presence of the Adobe
> DPS engine. I think the other vendors who licensed DPS do the same (at
> least I have vague memories of seeing it pop up on AIX 3.2.5, but it's
> been years since I used that and I'm not interested enough to put my
> old RS/6000 workstation back together to find out).
>
> That's of course not really relevant here, since I don't know of any
> vendor who licensed DPS for use in an XFree86-based server, but there
> you go.
>
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