Zak B. Elep wrote:
Not to mention the licensing issues ;) Even debian-devel's having a brawl on this (I don't think it's gotta do with the licensing though). The flames there are really burning...
Yes, this licensing you mentioned is one of the things I had in mind when I mentioned their alienating people (The ironic back story to all this is that Keith Packard has actually been accused of wanting to cooperate with commercial interests more than the Xfree86 Core Team would have wanted - see "The Governance Question" in http://www.xfree86.org/pipermail/forum/2003-March/000128.html )
I fail to see, though, what it is in those new terms that sound so unreasonable. After all it is still an open source license, and aren't those terms comparable to the BSD license anyway? For almost all other Linux distros besides Debian (one of whose aims is to remain 'ideologically pure'), the terms don't really amount to anything more than a requirement to copy-and-paste a notice right?
I believe the real reason that Linux distros (including pragmatic ones like Slackware in which you can find Sun's Java SDK and Netscape 7 included) are moving to the X org distribution (historically speaking, X org has not really contributed as much to X's public availability as XFree has) distribution is because they perceive that there are very few, if any, real hackers left in XFree right now and that anyone who's anyone has joined the efforts of Keith Packard et al. under the freedesktop.org banner.
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