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On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 11:25:20PM -0500, Donnie Berkholz wrote: |
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> If Gentoo distributes a GPL program or driver that can build against any |
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> of the XFree86-licensed sources (for example, the SDK), Gentoo probably |
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> violates the GPL. If Gentoo distributes a GPL XFree86 driver (for |
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> example, x11-misc/synaptics) that can load into this X server, Gentoo |
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> probably violates the GPL. |
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Perhaps what I'm about to ask about has already been discussed and |
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beaten to death personally, but I would have thought that Gentoo would |
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be somewhat immune to this particular problem, because it doesn't |
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so much distribute XFree as provide an automated way to fetch and |
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compile it. I suppose that there may be a problem with distributing |
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binary packages or something, and maybe Gentoo would be unable to |
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mirror the X sources on its mirror system, but how would the addition |
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of an XFree 4.4 ebuild in the Portage tree be considered an actual |
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distribution of the program? |
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Again, it's possible this has been already gone over a hundred times |
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already, in which case feel free to just ignore me. :) |
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-CJ |
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