On Tue, Mar 02, 2004 at 08:06:19PM +0100, Michael Schreckenbauer wrote:
>Am Dienstag, 2. März 2004 17:49 schrieb Måns Rullgård:
>> Frédéric L. W. Meunier <1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>> > On Tue, 2 Mar 2004, Mike A. Harris wrote:
>> >>> As always, people can use another distribution, the binaries
>> >>> from http://ftp.xfree86.org/pub/XFree86/4.4.0/binaries/ , or
>> >>> compile it.
>> >>
>> >> You mean there is a distribution that actually plans on
>> >> shipping 4.4.0? ;o)
>> >
>> > Actually, according to
>> > ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-current/COPYRIGHT.TXT
>> > , I guess Slackware will:
>>
>> I suppose Gentoo won't have any problems either, since they are not
>> actually shipping the files. Besides, I don't think they have any
>> silly political reasons stopping them.
>
>Gentoo announced, that it will not supply ebuilds for XFree86 with the new
>license. There's actually a long disussion in gentoo-user mailing list about
>this. I'm going to write my own ebuild now. Imho the only reason for gentoo
>doing this, is a political one :-(
The answer is to bypass the middle man and go straight to the source. I'd like to see a range of package formats available from the XFree86 ftp site so that people can more easily exercise their freedom to run what they want without their vendor's "approval." There seems to be something of a trend away from major vendors providing support, and thus real added value, for individual users anyway.
well i was thinking of making sun sparc tarballs. i could upload them somewhere if so.
mark.
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