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On Saturday 11 September 2004 17:02, Dimitris M. wrote:
> | kai episis sto distrowatch eida oti stamatisan na xrisimopoioun oi nees
> | dianomes xfree86 kai exoun vgei alloi  dekades x servers apo diaforous,
> | ti simvainei?
>
> Ο πρόεδρος του Xfree foundation έκανε κάποιες ανούσιες αλλαγές στην
> άδεια του  Xfree project με τρόπο που να το καθιστά GPL incompatible. Οι
> περισσότεροι developers  την κάναν με ελαφρά πηδηματάκια, παίρνοντας και
> τον τελευταίο του κώδικα μαζί και στήθηκε το X.org  project που έχει
> καθιερωθεί πλέον ως η συνέχεια των X.

  Ayto einai ligo anakribes. Katarxin den einai foundation alla ena project. 
AFAIK den exei kapoion proedro. Apotelleitai apo kapoia atoma ta opoia kanoyn 
koymanto sto xfree86 kai einai aytoi poy exoyn write access sto CVS ton 
Xfree86.

  Sth synexeia: den tin ekanan oi 'perissoteroi developers', alla (nomizo 
mono) o Keith Packard, o opoios eixe alla pragmata sto mialo toy (aytos 
eytiakse to DRI), eno oi ypolipoi itan poly syntiritikoi. Aytoi poy eixan 
dikaioma na kanoyn commit sto CVS itan/einai sxetika ligoi (den ksero posoi 
akribos). H oli istoria prepei na ksekinise otan o Keith ekane commit kati 
sto opoio den eixan symfonisei oi alloi kai toy aferesan to write access, 
opote kai tin ekane me elafra pidimatakia.

  To poios exei dikio einai ena skotino komati pros to paron. H oli istora 
entelos symptomatika (?) synodeytike apo to anoigma toy X.org to opoio mexri 
prin ligo kairo itan poly kleisto kai apaitoyse ena arketa megalo poso gia na 
mporesei kapoios (mia etairia) na parei meros (alla timitika ypirxe kai ena 
melos apo to xfree86 project). 

  Ayti ti stigmi sto X.org bazoyn xeri eteries opos h SUN kai den ksero kata 
poso h oli istoria proekypse epidi ypirixe kati poy den mporoysan na kanoyn.

> Open Source vs Free Software: 0-1 :-)

  To oti to license toy X.org einai anikei sta free einai poly kalo, alla to 
license toy xfree86 den exei alaksei toso dramatika. To mono poy leei einai 
oti opoios kykloforei ta xfree86 einai ypoxreomenos na dilonei oti einai 
doyleia poy basizetai se aytos poy to egrapsan (opos kai h GPL), alla bazei 
merikoys periorismoys pano se ayto. Den empodizei se kamia periptosi tin 
diadosi toy kodika.

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