From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Chris Faylor To: Tom Tromey Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 20:07:00 -0000 Message-ID: <20000503230655.B13804@cygnus.com> References: <20000503221805.A13179@cygnus.com> <200005040259.TAA07015@ferrule.cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00149.html Message-ID: <20000503200700.e5ym7T85oi9NThD8TVzpO3OO82Exarti7k1vv0WxYUI@z> On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 07:59:22PM -0700, Tom Tromey wrote: >Chris> Any thoughts on this, anyone? > >My thought is that the very best approach is for us to be good >citizens and get this into the official X distribution. >Based on history that is a political nightmare, but we must definitely >try before we give up. Believe me they've tried. Cygwin's GPL licensing restrictions are apparently unacceptable to the xfree project. That's a real shame. >As to whether we should host it while we (a word which I sometimes use >to mean "someone else") do this, I don't know. Hey, I just make user >accounts and occasionally complain. Well, I just ask for user accounts and occasionally complain but I suspect that this would have to be hosted for a long time. I wouldn't want to anger the XFree86 developers, though. I hate politics. cgf