From: "Jérôme Marant" <jmarant@free.fr>
Cc: storm@cua.dk, "Jan D." <jan.h.d@swipnet.se>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch)
Date: Tue, 5 Oct 2004 23:07:24 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1097010444.41630d0c187cd@imp4-q.free.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CEtgt-0003Zc-O7@fencepost.gnu.org>
Selon Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>:
> > 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-10-05 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-10-01 21:00 Xfree86 and the Meta key (+patch) Jérôme Marant
2004-10-02 23:06 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-10-03 7:34 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-04 15:18 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-04 15:55 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-05 18:05 ` Richard Stallman
2004-10-05 21:07 ` Jérôme Marant [this message]
2004-10-05 21:15 ` Jan D.
2004-10-03 8:11 ` Frank Schmitt
2004-10-03 12:00 ` Jan D.
2004-10-03 17:54 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-03 19:10 ` Jérôme Marant
2004-10-03 21:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2004-10-03 21:52 ` Jan D.
2004-10-03 22:48 ` Andreas Schwab
[not found] <20041003233940.JVGC27821.mxfep02.bredband.com@coolsville.localdomain>
2004-10-03 23:52 ` Andreas Schwab
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2004-10-04 0:08 Jan D.
2004-10-04 21:30 Denis Barbier
2004-10-04 22:56 ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 5:53 ` Denis Barbier
2004-10-05 10:43 ` Jan D.
2004-10-05 19:50 ` Denis Barbier
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