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/
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,
I won't claim to know the answer to the first question. But you can
download the source code for XFree86 or xorg and compile these
libraries yourself. You can then include the libraries you built
yourself, as long as you adhere to the terms of the respective
licenses. If you do this, I would recommend that you install these
libraries into a location other than /usr/X11R6/lib and and link
against this other location.
Ronnie
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