Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
I understand why they lost interest in talking to persons who cannot grasp that distros removed mention of them from their man pages and this was wrong.It seems an apt description of how some XFree86 developers reacted to questions. They went dumb. Other XFree86 developers were helpful, but they are not the reason I plan to stop using it, so I do not blame them.
I sent them a thanks for being brave enough to take on the task of changing licensing mores and forcing distros to attribute, and I got a response.;-)
Hans