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> > And then create a KDE licence group, and a Gnome licence group, and |
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> > so on? Remember that there are only a few X licences once you ignore |
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> > copyright line differences, just as there are only a few KDE |
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> > licences once you ignore copyright line differences. |
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> The other option is to submit patches for X and KDE and Gnome to use |
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> a unified license. At least in the X case, it's not that the patches |
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> arn't welcome, it's that the maintainers have things more important |
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> to do than cleaning up after the mess upstream made of the licenses. |
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The problem is being overlooked here. Fact is, a feature |
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which *is* being added to portage in the next few releases will be very |
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problematic for folks wishing to install X using portage. Whether the |
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X maintainers feel they have time or not is irrelevant if the portage |
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devs go ahead with this. |
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-Steve |
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