From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree
Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000503230655.B13804@cygnus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200005040259.TAA07015@ferrule.cygnus.com>
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
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From: Chris Faylor <cgf@cygnus.com>
To: Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>
Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com
Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree
Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 20:07:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000503230655.B13804@cygnus.com> (raw)
Message-ID: <20000503200700.e5ym7T85oi9NThD8TVzpO3OO82Exarti7k1vv0WxYUI@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200005040259.TAA07015@ferrule.cygnus.com>
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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-12-30 6:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-30 6:08 cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 19:18 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-05-03 19:45 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-12-30 6:08 ` htdig, was cygwin-xfree Frank Ch. Eigler
2000-05-03 20:23 ` Frank Ch. Eigler
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2000-05-06 2:43 ` Hans-Peter Nilsson
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 19:53 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jeffrey A Law
2000-05-04 9:07 ` cygwin-xfree Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Andrew Cagney
2000-05-03 19:30 ` cygwin-xfree Andrew Cagney
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-03 19:47 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 19:34 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-05-03 19:59 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Chris Faylor [this message]
2000-05-03 20:07 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Per Bothner
2000-05-03 23:21 ` cygwin-xfree Per Bothner
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-04 4:35 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-05-03 20:09 ` cygwin-xfree Tom Tromey
2000-12-30 6:08 ` libstdc++-v3 things that still are not working correctly Benjamin Kosnik
2000-05-03 20:14 ` Benjamin Kosnik
2000-12-30 6:08 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-05-03 22:33 ` Jeffrey A Law
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-03 20:22 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-04 4:52 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-05-04 7:48 ` cygwin-xfree Chris Faylor
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Bob Manson
2000-05-03 21:11 ` cygwin-xfree Bob Manson
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-05-04 13:19 ` cygwin-xfree Jason Molenda
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Stan Shebs
2000-05-21 22:19 ` cygwin-xfree Stan Shebs
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Mark Galassi
2000-05-22 6:15 ` cygwin-xfree Mark Galassi
2000-12-30 6:08 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
2000-05-07 6:32 ` cygwin-xfree Jim Kingdon
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