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-----Original Message----- From: Anders Karlsson [mailto:anders@trudheim.com] Sent: Monday, March 15, 2004 10:19 AM To: SuSE List Subject: Re: [SLE] XFree86 4.4.0
On Mon, 2004-03-15 at 15:49, James Ogley wrote:
Any chance this will be in the next release (suse 9.1)? Just wondering...
From www.rubberturnip.org.uk/planetsuse :
"SuSE LINUX 9.1, available in April 2004, and the next generation of SUSE LINUX Enterprise Server, available in summer 2004, will include an enhanced version of X11 based on a XFree86 version prior to the
How is the license change bad? I didn't catch the whole story? license
change.
"For the future, we are exploring different options, e.g. X.org and freedesktop.org, to establish a reliable alternative that lets our customers benefit from future enhancements in Linux desktop infrastructure technology."
Personally I want to see the code from freedesktop.org make it in as a replacement for XFree86. It has some _seriously_ nice features and eye-candy built in.
XFree86 shot themselves in the feet with a BFG9000 when they modified the licence the way they did. Kudos to SuSE for exploring alternatives in light of the current situation.
-- Anders Karlsson
Trudheim Technology Limited
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"Craig Herring"
How is the license change bad? I didn't catch the whole story?
/. would tell you more then you'd like :) In a nutshell: XFree86 (or rather its head, David Dawes) added an advertising clause ( = this code uses ..... ) to 4.4, similar to the first BSD license. But the advertising clause is only attached to some of the files, so a distributor like SUSE would have to scrutinize each and every source file in every package to determine where to display/use the advertizing note. This is simply impossible for any distributor, at least for any commercial Linux distributor. Philipp
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