Hello! On Mon, Aug 09, 2004 at 05:41:39PM +0200, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: > Why in heavens name did Xfree86 change their license? Was it the > previous license too restrictive? Sponsors needed/wanted the ability to > incorporate proprietary code? > Waste of BW probably, but does anybody know? In the original announcement they said: |The purpose of these changes is to strengthen the "except claim you |wrote it" clause of the Project's licensing philosophy regarding |binary distributions of XFree86. While the original license covered |this adequately for source code redistribution, it has always been |lacking where binary redistribution was concerned. Please see <http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-January/001892.html> for reference. Perhaps "What is the story with XFree86's license?" from the XSF FAQ at <http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml#xfree86license> is helpful as well. Cheers, Flo
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