Re: [gNewSense-users] Bug 00129 query.

[Karl Goetz]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 23:20 +0000, Chris Andrew wrote:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I was just looking at Bug 00129, which still seems to be an issue on
> the Suspected non-free page.
> 
> http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00129
> 

i just marked http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00129 (wordy sgi licence is
non-free) as a dupe of http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00103 (xfree86
includes software under non-free licences). i also bumped the priority
of bug 103 to L2, and copied over all comments from 129 for easy access.



> It seems that research has been carried-out and that xserver-xorg is
> non-free.  Is this definitely confirmed, and if so, will we be looking
> at the dependencies and considering the implications of removing?

it contains non-free files (two). saying 'all of xorg is non-free' is a
bit misleading :)

> 
> I know this is a biggy, and removing it will be huge, but I think we
> have to consider this as an option.

unless we have luck finding someone to rewrite the two files listed in
129, plus any otheres that are found.
(i note at this point those are the only two files under the SGI licence
i'm aware of).

> 
> What does anyone think?
> 

i think it needs more people to test kevins/my packages and break thier
systems to help us decide :)
kk

> Thanks,
> 
> Chris.
> 
> 
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Karl Goetz,
Debian user / Ubuntu contributor / gNewSense contributor
http://www.kgoetz.id.au