On Llu, 2004-03-01 at 14:34, Adam K Kirchhoff wrote:
> The client libraries are still distributed under the old license, so there
> is no problem linking GPLed libraries or apps to the 4.4 libraries.  Which
> means there is no longer a reason for those distributions not to include
> 4.4 any more.

There are several reasons, including for example the X Vnc servers which
also use GPL code in the server

> 
> > Or the old license with 4.4 RC2 fork that is somewhere on freedesktop?
> 
> And, as I understand it, is so significantly different from the XFree86
> codebase to make a merge rather, shall we say, pointless?

If someone plans to merge with 4.4 can you please tag the codebase just
before so that everyone else can fork it too 8)



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