Re: XFree86 License Change

[Robin Laing <Robin Laing drdc-rddc gc ca>]

Aaron Matteson wrote:
> Preston became daring and sent these 0.9K bytes,
>
> > El Martes, 17 de Febrero de 2004 07:32 AM, David Balazic escribi?:
> >
> > > 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.
>
>
> from what i have been able to gather from the couple minutes i have
> looked at this, the new license seems to demand permission for any
> distribution and subdistribution. There seems to be a few otehr problems
> hinting but i need to read the license further. What a pain in the ass.

Read this morning on Slashdot that other distros are not going to 
support 4.4 due to this problem.  I think Debian is backing out of 4.4 
and going back to 4.3.

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Robin Laing