GPL'd XServer for Windows

Rasjid rasjidw at bigpond.com
Sat Aug 25 13:54:51 EST 2001


Tim Potter wrote:
> 
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2001 at 04:38:42AM +1000, Rasjid wrote:
> 
> > Anyone wanting to have a look at a little project of mine, please visit
> > http://www.users.bigpond.com/rasjidw/
> >
> > It is a minimal install of Cygwin/XFree86 for Windows.  Only enough is
> > installed to make connecting to an XDM server and font server easy.
> 
> XFree86 isn't GPL.  It's under a BSD license.  A neat idea though - the
> only good X servers for Windows are commercial ones.
> 
> Tim.

Ah, I guess I'd better look into the whole licensing issue a bit more
throughly.  Although I've been using Linux for a while now, this is the
first time I've actually been able to contribute something, so the
process is a bit new to me.

Rasjid.




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