<div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Kevin Kofler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kevin.kofler@chello.at">kevin.kofler@chello.at</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">King InuYasha wrote:<br>
> Couldn't the patches [used to make the coLinux kernel possible] be forward<br>
> ported to the latest 2.6.x kernel? As for the X11 issue, I did notice<br>
> that. However it seems that he provides the latest versions of all of his<br>
> patches (<a href="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/" target="_blank">http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingCode/</a>) even though the<br>
> instructions on how to use them are kinda out of date (<br>
> <a href="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/cross.php" target="_blank">http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/cross.php</a>). I think this is more<br>
> or less the same situation with the Xchat Windows binaries, except this<br>
> guy has more legal ground, especially with most of it being licensed<br>
> either LGPL or X11.<br>
<br>
</div>There is no license in that directory, so I can only assume these terms:<br>
<a href="http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/terms.php" target="_blank">http://www.straightrunning.com/XmingNotes/terms.php</a><br>
to apply, in other words, this source and any binaries built from it are<br>
non-redistributable.<br>
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Kevin Kofler<br>
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</div></div></blockquote></div><br><div>Wow, that sucks. So only the ancient 6.9.0 release is allowed redistribution. The only other one I can think of is the Cygwin Xorg release 7.4, but I'm not sure how that would actually work without including the entire Cygwin system.</div>