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Subject: Apple library distrobution
From: Ken Mankoff <email@hidden>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 15:23:45 -0400 (EDT)
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Hi List,

Legal question (unfortunately): Am I allow to distribute X11 libraries? I think the answer is yes, because X11 is open source. But I don't know the details of this, nor if the Apple X11 libraries are under a different license, etc.

I am distributing a program that relies on some X11 libraries. We assume the people installing this do not have, nor want, X11 installed. They say its a liability to provide shell access, and they remove Terminal also.

The program is hard-linked to the following libraries in:
	/usr/X11R6/lib/

libExt.6.dylib -> libExt.6.4.dylib
libGL.1.dylib -> libGL.1.2.dylib
libICE.6.dylib -> libICE.6.3.dylib
libSM.6.dylib -> libSM.6.0.dylib
libX11.6.dylib -> libX11.6.2.dylib
libXext.6.dylib -> libXext.6.4.dylib
libXp.6.dylib -> libXp.6.2.dylib
libXpm.4.dylib -> libXpm.4.11.dylib
libXt.6.dylib -> libXt.6.0.dylib

I would like to have my installer install these programs. Is this acceptable? If yes, great. If not, do I need to talk to someone in the X consortium, or someone at Apple?

Thanks for your help,

-k.

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