[Xastir-dev] Re: [suse-ham-e] ham radio files missing (fwd)

[Curt, WE7U]

Here's the most recent message I sent to SuSE.  I have yet to hear
back from them, but I think this nails it pretty well.

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Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 16:14:00 -0700 (PDT)
From: "Curt, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
To: Joerg Reuter <jreuter at suse.de>
Cc: "Curt Mills, WE7U" <archer at eskimo.com>
Subject: Re: [suse-ham-e] ham radio files missing

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:

> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Curt, WE7U wrote:
> >
> > > Near as I can tell, "wmx", "xfig", "xephem", and "root" all use the
> > > same code as well.  Are any of those included on the SuSE disks?
> > >
> > > In fact, it looks like it might be used in X11 itself:
> > >
> > >     http://root.cern.ch/viewcvs/x11/src/Rotated.cxx?rev=1.3
> >
> > Sorry, that looks like it might be the program "root" instead of the
> > root of the X11 CVS tree like I thought it might be.
> >
> > Near as I can tell, xvertext is in the X11 contrib area.
>
> Here's the Debian-legal blurb about xvertext.  This and follow-on's
> to the thread show how Debian justified it:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/1998/12/msg00246.html

Here's an approved open-source license with similar wording
regarding fees:

    http://www.opensource.org/licenses/W3C.php

Here's another Debian argument that talks specifically about how
that phrase does NOT make it incompatible with the GPL license:

    http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/05/msg00039.html

Please read that last one.  Thanks!

--
Curt, WE7U.   APRS Client Comparisons: http://www.eskimo.com/~archer
"Lotto:    A tax on people who are bad at math." -- unknown
"Windows:  Microsoft's tax on computer illiterates." -- WE7U
"The world DOES revolve around me:  I picked the coordinate system!"