Re: Xv proprietory or shipped with X?

On Sun, 26 Mar 2006 21:33:02 -0800, NUPUL wrote:
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> A few days back one of the group members suggested that I use Xv for
> setting the background of the root Window. I didn't hve Xv on my distro
> so I browsed for it. On another PC I did find it pre installed. The one
> I browsed for wasn't licensed under GPL but was for sale. Which Xv is
> actually run on X?[/color]

Xv is open source, but not GPL. It's free for non commercial use. Some
distros ship with it (eg suse) some do not (eg RedHat, last time I looked)

-Ed


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E. Rosten wrote:
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> Xv is open source, but not GPL. It's free for non commercial use. Some
> distros ship with it (eg suse) some do not (eg RedHat, last time I looked)[/color]

The source code is available, but Xv is not Open Source in the sense of
the
Open Source Definition ([url]http://www.opensource.org/docs/definition.php[/url]).

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