[Pkg-nx-group] freenx debian packaging

Marcin Owsiany porridge at debian.org
Thu Jan 10 21:49:03 UTC 2008


On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 04:14:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 07:51:01PM +0000, Marcin Owsiany wrote:
> > 
> > Thus, the TODO should begin with:
> > 
> > Step 1: find an "X protocol"/"Xorg guts" guru, who has willingness to
> > work on it and ability to integrate nx-x11 properly into the Xorg
> > codebase.
> > 
> And it will stop right there.  *Before* that work could begin earnest,
> you would need to either reverse engineer the NX protocol and
> clean-room implement it and release that implementation under the MIT/X
> or BSD-type license.  Or convince NoMachine to relicense their
> implementation (I doubt they will).

Right, I completly forgot about the licensing issue.

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