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The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

Posted Feb 26, 2013 11:32 UTC (Tue) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715)
In reply to: The 2013 "State of X.Org" report by mmarq
Parent article: The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

> Why not merge NX(basically all of it is GPL) with X ?

X is not GPL.


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The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

Posted Feb 26, 2013 15:48 UTC (Tue) by mmarq (guest, #2332) [Link]

And isn't compatible ?

The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

Posted Feb 26, 2013 16:11 UTC (Tue) by drago01 (subscriber, #50715) [Link]

Not in a sense that you can copy GPL code into it and still retain its licence. That's not how the GPL work. (IANAL).

The 2013 "State of X.Org" report

Posted Feb 26, 2013 16:12 UTC (Tue) by mpr22 (subscriber, #60784) [Link]

GPL / MIT license compatibility is one-way. A GPL project can incorporate MIT-licensed code, but MIT-licensed projects can't incorporate GPL code - and the X.org developers deliberately chose the MIT license.

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