[Pkg-nx-group] freenx debian packaging

[Paul van der Vlis]

Marcin Owsiany schreef:
> 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.

It would be interesting to do a "quiet diff" between the Xorg version
used in the NX libaries and the NX library what implements Xorg.

In this way we can get an idea how many lines code has been changed, and
how much work it is to do such a clean-room implementation.

Maybe it's less work as we think!

With regards,
Paul van der Vlis.


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