-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 11 April 2004 04:23, Carlos E. R. wrote:
On 2004-04-11 09:28, Curtis Rey wrote:
It is my hope that X.org will be able to rectify some of these dificiencies - though to a degree XF86 has addressed these as well - but not to the degree that is could be and I believe that the political arena at XF86 is the primary reason that we are seeing this (excuse my bluntness) "Brain Dead" license clause that has the rest of the community up in arms.
Excuse my ignorance O:-)
What is that license problem, in brief?
(If there is a link explaining that, and why the X project has divided, I'm interested).
-- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
[forum] Announcement: Modification to the base XFree86(TM) license. http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2004-January/001892.html XFree86 4.4: List of Rejecting Distributors Grows http://yro.slashdot.org/yro/04/02/18/131223.shtml?tid=104 XFree86 License Change in 4.4.0 http://pcburn.com/article.php?op=Print&sid=203 A new XFree86 license http://lwn.net/Articles/68841/ Stallman on XFree86 License Change (OfB.biz) http://lwn.net/Articles/72053/ Stallman Responds to XFree86 License http://www.ofb.biz/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=297 That should keep you busy for a while. :) :) :) Cheers, Curtis. - -- Spammers Beware: Tresspassers will be shot, survivors will be shot again! Warning: Individuals throwing objects at the crocodiles will be asked to retrieve them! If pro is the opposite of con, then the opposite of progress must be congress! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFAeeys7CQBg4DqqCwRArbjAJ4pMVFXiG081exKrVu3bXjrdTCEuQCg2ei6 MzhquJY5F2FhZoRGYcikUUA= =6EmO -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----