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From: Matthew Kennedy <mkennedy@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 15:37:15
Message-Id: 87fzcx97k7.fsf@killr.ath.cx
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license by Svyatogor
1 Svyatogor <svyatogor@g.o> writes:
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3 [...]
4
5 > This partuclar part seems promising. Can't we treat XFree as a major
6 > system component? I think that most of the packages in GRP set are
7 > built with X in USE and XFree86 itself is distributed on the 2 Set CD
8 > by default. I think it would be reasonable to treat graphical
9 > envirnment a major componet.
10
11 But it isn't a major component (often one will use Gentoo for a server
12 OS). I don't think we should be squirming our way through some
13 dubious change in semantics to fit in with their new and incompatible
14 license.
15
16 --
17 Matthew Kennedy
18 Gentoo Linux Developer

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Re: [gentoo-dev] No XFree86 w/ new license Stewart <blkdeath@g.o>