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RE: suggestion
- To: cygwin-xfree at sources dot redhat dot com
- Subject: RE: suggestion
- From: Suhaib Siddiqi <ssiddiqi at inspirepharm dot com>
- Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2001 08:15:01 -0400
It cannot be integrated in core distribution of Cygwin. Because of
conflicting
GPL ad X licenses, it took me months to pursue XF86 board members to at
least integrate
Cygwin related patches in XF86. We are allowed to distribute binaries and
sources
separate of Cygwin, but officially integrating XF86 in Cygwin will start
arguments
with XF86 board members and may result in throwing away Cygwin support.
Therefore, answer is no. Cygwin/XFree86 will always exists an open source
separate project.
Binaries will be covered under GPL because they link to Cygwin1.dll, but
XF86 sources will
be under X Consortium license, which means if you could get it compile
without Cygwin1.dll
linking then your binaries will not be under GPL... which is fair enough.
Suhaib
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Lynch [mailto:lynchaj@yahoo.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 03, 2001 7:50 AM
> To: cygwin-xfree@sources.redhat.com
> Subject: suggestion
>
>
> Hi, I installed cygwin (latest) and the xfree86 shadow
> buffer 10 which works great on my Toshiba Satellite
> 335CDT laptop. (96M RAM, CT65555 w/2M vid RAM,
> Win98SE, P266) Congratulations!
>
> I do have one small suggestion, however. Now that the
> X server has been improved to run on most if not all
> Win platforms, how about integrating the Xfree86 X
> server into the regular Cygwin distribution?
>
> I read the UG and the FAQ and did not see any mention
> of this. I could see why X was separate when it only
> worked on WinNT and Win2000, but now those problems
> seem solved.
>
> I believe a working X server is important enough to be
> included in the core Cygwin distribution file set.
>
> If there is a reason as to why Cygwin Xfree86 is
> separate would someone please enlighten me? Thanks!
>
> Andrew Lynch
>
> please.no.more.spam.thankyou.lynchaj @ yahoo . com
>
>
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