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Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)
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Jérôme Marant |
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Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch) |
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Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:07:24 +0200 |
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Selon Richard Stallman <address@hidden>:
> > I don't know what Xorg is. Does Xorg have the same licence change
> > that XFree86 has? All else being equal, we would prefer to recommend
> > releases which don't have that license change.
>
> Xorg is a fork of the Xfree86 tree which does not have licensing
> problems.
> It is maintained by freedesktop.org. Everyone is going in this direction.
>
> In that case, we do care about it.
>
> Why did they make the change? Is it a clear improvement, in general?
Yes, it is a clear improvement for people using multiple keyboard
layouts.
> In other words, should we ask them to revert it, or should we accept
> it as an improvement in X?
The latter. Jan D. did some tests and commited the patch. As far as I know,
it is backward compatible. Jan, do you confirm?
--
Jérôme Marant
Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Frank Schmitt, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Jan D., 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Andreas Schwab, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Jérôme Marant, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Andreas Schwab, 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Jan D., 2004/10/03
- Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch), Andreas Schwab, 2004/10/03