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Community contributions and copyright assignment

Posted Oct 29, 2009 14:39 UTC (Thu) by pjones (guest, #31722)
In reply to: Community contributions and copyright assignment by ewan
Parent article: Community contributions and copyright assignment

That's not as optimal as you might think. For one thing, we'd rather James kept working on it, whereas with X.org there was a bit more of a line in the sand.

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Posted Nov 6, 2009 0:17 UTC (Fri) by Wol (guest, #4433) [Link]

And the guy who started x.org was the guy who'd actually done 90% of the work on XFree - he just got fed up with leadership being all mouth and no trousers. The change of licence was the last straw.

Cheers,
Wol

Community contributions and copyright assignment

Posted Nov 6, 2009 13:37 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

A lot of people worked on XFree. It's true that Keith did an awful lot,
but so did a lot of other people.

(He *had* been around in the X world forever, though, since 1989 I think.
Of course Jim Gettys had been around longer but Jim's been around longer
than *anyone*, pretty much.)