Juliusz Chroboczek wrote: > > DD> [XFree86] was not, as a whole, FSF-free before the change, let > DD> alone GPL-compatible. Same after the change. But then XFree86 > DD> has never factored in those two licensing criteria. > > That's not quite the point, David. > > Of the many reasons for which I was happy to contribute my work to > XFree86 was that the old licence guaranteed that anyone could use my > code. It was okay for Debian or FreeBSD to grab a routine that I > wrote, as it was for Apple or Microsoft.
I believe it still is. > Unless I've missed a post, you still haven't explained what it is that > you're trying to achieve with the new licence. I would like to hear > you justify that the advantages of the new licence justify what I > perceive as a net loss in code availability. My understanding is that they've essentially made it a copy of the classic BSD license. So I don't see anyhting to worry about. It's interesting that FreeBSD is actually moving in the opposite direction: many of the newer contributions have the clause "do not use our names in advertisement" removed. -SB _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://XFree86.Org/mailman/listinfo/devel
