XFree86 License Change

Preston grammaton_cleric at gmx.net
Tue Feb 17 15:44:33 UTC 2004


El Martes, 17 de Febrero de 2004 07:32 AM, David Balazic escribió:
> Drew Dunn wrote :
> > I've read that the XFree86 license is changing as of version 4.4
> > (http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-January/001892.html).  In
> > fact, there's quite a brouhaha growing over on Slashdot about it because
> > Mandrake has elected to revert from version 4.4 back to 4.3.  Now, I see
> > that FC2 RC1 has Xfree86 4.3.  Does the license change mean that version
> > 4.3 is as far as we go (at least until the license reverts back to a
> > FSF-approved one)?
>
> Note that the old licence is valid until 4.4.0RC2 , only 4.4.0RC3 has the
> new licence.
But, basically the XFree will contnue being Open Source and free, whats the 
difference? I cant underestand the problem yet.

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