Why is Xvnc not in XFree86 source tree?

[Alan Hourihane]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2002 at 09:53:14 +0200, "Beerse, Corni" wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Thomas Chadwick [mailto:j_tetazoo "at" hotmail.com]
> > 
> > Just wondering why the Xvnc source has not been integrated 
> > into the XFree86 
> > source tree?  Is it because it is an "incomplete" X server in 
> > that it lacks 
> > the viewer piece?  Come to think of it, if that's the case, 
> > then can't you 
> > somehow pair it with the vncviewer X client to make it a "complete" X 
> > server?
> > 
> 
> I think of several reasons:
> First of all, they have not found Xvnc.

Rubbish.

> Xvnc is a replacement for XFree, the are both Xservers.
> 
> XFree is a demonstration project (at least, that's how it started) just to
> give an idea of an implementation for an XServer.
 
A demonstration project? I'm on the Core Team at XFree86 and you've
no idea how it started. It was very far from a demonstration project.

> If you mean that XFree comes with a lot of tools like xterm and even a
> window manager like twm then that's just the distribution. You can make a
> similar distribution with Xvnc.
> 
> There can also be something like a license conflict, you should not bundle 2
> packages with different license types, specially if both packages are free
> and easy to mix.

XFree86 will not import GPL code.
 
Alan.