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
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>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.
--
Mike A. Harris ftp://people.redhat.com/mharris
OS Systems Engineer - XFree86 maintainer - Red Hat
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