Re: xfree86 4.4.0
On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 08:13:17PM +0200, David Fokkema wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 04, 2004 at 11:13:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
> > jack kinnon wrote:
> > > I'm not familiar with those licencing stuff. Does it
> > > mean that future software fr xfree86 will no more be
> > > free?
> >
> > Yes, that is correct. XFree86 changed their copyright recently and it
> > is no longer free. The major distros have dropped it due to the new
> > licensing restrictions. This is not a Debian specific. Here are some
> > slashdot articles on it.
> >
> > http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/131223.shtml?tid=104
> > http://slashdot.org/articles/04/03/17/226216.shtml?tid=104&tid=110&tid=152&tid=185&tid=187&tid=189
>
> I (think I) have read the previous thread about the license change, but
> probably not good enough. Would someone care to explain to me what
> exactly is the fuss about the license change? I understand that XFree86
> has the exception that you cannot "claim that you wrote it", right? Why
> does that make XFree86 non-DFSG compliant?
>
Look for more detail in my other post, but essentially they also
require you now to acknowledge their contribution along with any
acknowledgment to other software distributed with it.
I would guess that could imply to mean that distributions having a
splash screen of whatever of the distribution in the setup, or wherever
else, and that also distribute Xfree would have to provide a splash
screen for X in the setup (or wherever else that appears).
> Thanks,
>
> David
>
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