Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 16:24:48 -0500 (EST)
> From: "Mike A. Harris" <mharris@redhat.com>
> To: xorg_foundation@x.org
> Subject: Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license
>
> On Wed, 11 Feb 2004 mcnichol@austin.ibm.com wrote:
>
> >Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2004 15:20:08 -0600
> >From: mcnichol@austin.ibm.com
> >To: xorg_foundation@x.org
> >Cc: debian-legal@lists.debian.org, debian-x@lists.debian.org,
> > keithp@keithp.com
> >Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
> >Subject: Re: FWD from XFree86 forum: GPL-incompatible license
> >
> >Ummmm...
> >
> >In general I have some difficulty with the argument
> >
> >XFree doesn't use ABC, we have been using XYZ for years.
> >Therefore ABC doesn't matter to anyone anymore.
>
> If there are people for which ABC matters, perhaps they will
> cleanroom reimplement the problematic code and supply a cleanly
> licensed alternative.
>
I'm not real up to date on compression algorithms, but does zlib
provide compatible compression/decompression?
I think the license is ok.
Dan
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