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While that is the case and still is today, i remember Keith Packard (a prominent X developer) making various remarks over the year in his presentations on the n
by badsectoracula 3y ago
While that is the case and still is today, i remember Keith Packard (a prominent X developer) making various remarks over the year in his presentations on the negative side of having all these companies making their own private forks without contributing code back.
- snvzz 3y agoThis is precisely what Tinyx is doing: A "private" fork in a license that would make it impossible to contribute code back to Xorg.
- badsectoracula 3y agoThat is only if Xorg doesn't switch to GPLv3. Though of course in that case (i.e. Xorg not switching) someone can fork Xorg, relicense it to GPLv3 and merge the TinyX code - so everyone gets their cake. In practice however i doubt anyone would bother with any of the above (including Xorg wanting to merge any TinyX contributions).