From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Per Bothner To: Chris Faylor Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Date: Sat, 30 Dec 2000 06:08:00 -0000 Message-id: References: <20000503221805.A13179@cygnus.com> <200005040259.TAA07015@ferrule.cygnus.com> <20000503230655.B13804@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000/msg00463.html Chris Faylor writes: > Believe me they've tried. Cygwin's GPL licensing restrictions are > apparently unacceptable to the xfree project. That's a real shame. But that shouldn't really be an issue, should it, assuming I correctly understand that the goal of this project is to create a *port* of X that runs under Cygwin. How is this different from creating a port of X that runs under SunOS? You just have to keep separate the modifications to X (which remain under the X license) and the modifications to Cygwin (which are under the GPL). Presumably, he has to write some new glue code - which should be considered part of (and distributed with) either X or Cygwin, depending on what makes most sense. Now of course there is nothing that prevents us from releasing a CD that contain *both* Cygwin and X - just like there is nothing preventing Sun from releasing a CD containing both Solaris including X. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/~per/ From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Per Bothner To: Chris Faylor Cc: overseers@sourceware.cygnus.com Subject: Re: cygwin-xfree Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 23:21:00 -0000 Message-ID: References: <20000503221805.A13179@cygnus.com> <200005040259.TAA07015@ferrule.cygnus.com> <20000503230655.B13804@cygnus.com> X-SW-Source: 2000-q2/msg00156.html Message-ID: <20000503232100.nZd6kOK5fREiK7dTcwkS7kzeQlMCE6IW_JurTQ30gWo@z> Chris Faylor writes: > Believe me they've tried. Cygwin's GPL licensing restrictions are > apparently unacceptable to the xfree project. That's a real shame. But that shouldn't really be an issue, should it, assuming I correctly understand that the goal of this project is to create a *port* of X that runs under Cygwin. How is this different from creating a port of X that runs under SunOS? You just have to keep separate the modifications to X (which remain under the X license) and the modifications to Cygwin (which are under the GPL). Presumably, he has to write some new glue code - which should be considered part of (and distributed with) either X or Cygwin, depending on what makes most sense. Now of course there is nothing that prevents us from releasing a CD that contain *both* Cygwin and X - just like there is nothing preventing Sun from releasing a CD containing both Solaris including X. -- --Per Bothner per@bothner.com http://www.bothner.com/~per/