Re: X11R6.4 and Debian
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On Wed, 1 Apr 1998, Marco Anglesio wrote:
> How will this influence the composition of future versions of Debian?
> IIRC, a current topic on debian-user has been that non-free works are not
> included in the official debian distribution; if X11R6.4 becomes non-free,
> would that mean that X11R6.4 would no longer be distributed with Debian
> (at least not on official CD-ROM's)?
>
> IMHO not including X11R6.4 would be a major barrier to new users trying
> out Debian.
XFree86 will continue to be free (this is different than the X11R6.4 from
the OpenGroup). Nothing will change, from our perspective. This new
licenseing thing will hurt people like Metro-X, though, because they'll
have to start paying big time licensing fees.
noah
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