Re: F43 Change Proposal: X11Libre (system-wide)

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Chris Adams wrote:
> Given the questionable changes made to X.Org by the lead (only?)
> developer of X11Libre before being removed from the project, including
> possible license violations

The "license violations" are actually moving a few lines of mostly trivial 
declarations from one header file to another without copying the copyright 
notice.

As I wrote in 
https://discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/veto-x11libre-replacing-xorg-for-fedora/155926/77 :
> If you mean this one:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/commit/346d5f5c352146879c749b2177b3671a374b6503
> which got reverted at X.Org for alleged copyright violation:
> https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/2019
>
> Seriously? This moves 6 trivial 1-line macros and one 6-line macro 
> (counting only the bodies, otherwise it is 1 1-line, 5 2-line, and 1 
> 7-line macro) from one header file to a new header file with a possibly 
> misleading copyright notice and SPDX declaration. It is not clear to me 
> whether this tiny amount of mostly boilerplate code (do {…} while(0) 
> pattern, delegating to another macro while defaulting some arguments) is 
> even copyrightable at all. And the fix would be to get the copyright 
> notice and the SPDX declaration on that new header file fixed, not to ban 
> the whole project for such a tiny mistake.

        Kevin Kofler

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