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[gNewSense-users] Re: xfont-core and GLX Public License
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Yavor Doganov |
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[gNewSense-users] Re: xfont-core and GLX Public License |
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Mon, 11 Aug 2008 19:37:31 +0300 |
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[ Replying to an old thread. ]
At Mon, 28 Apr 2008 14:20:38 +0300,
Kaloian Doganov wrote:
> Kevin Dean writes:
>
> This means that the source package for xorg-server has non-free in the
> following files:
> GL/glx/glxext.c
> hw/dmx/glxProxy/glxext.c
>
> and therefore CONFIRMS bug 129
> (http://bugs.gnewsense.org/Bugs/00129).
>
> I wonder, does anybody bothered to report this problem upstream (to X
> developers)?
While investigating the status of this problem in Debian, I found out
it's an old issue:
<http://bugs.debian.org/211765>
<http://bugs.debian.org/368560>
Just take a look at the age of the bugs and those `-ignore' tags. I
guess a `lenny-ignore' tag will be added too; by quickly skimming
through the bug logs my impression is that they're waiting for
upstream to fix this, and upstream is waiting for someone to *rewrite*
the offending code, but it appears that nobody is working on this
task. I feel even a prouder gNS user now :-}
Upstream is perfectly aware of this; recent discussion:
<http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/xorg/2008-May/035069.html>
Unrelated, but I accidentally came upon this bug report:
<http://bugs.debian.org/383465> (xserver-xorg-video-nv)
According to (at least) the linux-libre folks deliberately obfuscated
code to the extent that it's not possible to exercise even one of the
freedoms effectively renders the code non-free. I couldn't agree
more. Worth looking at.
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